Former LA Commissioner Relates Experiences

Louisiana's former insurance commissioner, who was jailed following a conviction on seven counts of making false statements to the FBI, has written a book detailing the rise and fall of his insurance career. In Justice Denied, Brown warns, “If you are in the insurance business, keep your guard up.” Despite the fact that “insurance groups throughout the nation praised the job he did in restoring Louisiana's reputation as a fair and competitive place to do business,” Brown was “blind-sided by the Justice Department with charges that are still considered bizarre and without merit,” according to the book's marketing materials.

In April 2003, Brown was released from a federal prison in Oakdale, La., where he had served a six-month sentence for lying to an FBI agent during an investigation into the failure of Cascade Insurance Co. Although he had remained commissioner while appealing his conviction, following the U.S. Supreme Court's second refusal to hear his case, he resigned from the post. The book was written while Brown was in prison.

Brown is promoting his book aggressively, appearing on radio and television stations and at book signings throughout Louisiana. He describes it as, “A book every insurance professional should read.”