A public adjuster who pleaded guilty in March to defrauding Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. and a Georgia church
out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 19 years in prison.
A federal judge in Georgia last week also ordered Andrew Aga, sometimes known as Andrew Mitchell, to pay
some $2.9 million in restitution for the Georgia scam and another $1.1 million for similar fraud in Louisiana and Texas t
hat he admitted to in co
urt. His prison sentence will be concurrent with a 20-year sentence he
received in 2023 for the Louisiana and Texas crimes, the judge said.
“Andrew Mitchell will spend nearly two decades in prison for concocting a devious scheme to swindle insurance mo
ney from a historic downtown Albany church, a crime he’s committed in
other communities after natural disasters,” U.S. Attorney William “Will” Keyes said in a statement.
Aga fell under the scrutiny of Georgia Office of Insurance Commissioner investigators after Hurricane Michae
l hit Florida and part of Georgia in 2018. Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Albany was left with extensive
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wind and water damage, court documents show. Brotherhood Mutual, based in Indiana, paid the church $183,208 on the claim in late 2018.
A few days later, a construction company representative showed up and convinced church leaders to hire hi
s company and a public adjuster to maximize the insurance settlement and make repairs, Aga’s 2024 indictment expl
ains. Aga has said he was associated with Loss Consultants of Texas, Texa
s Claim Consultants and his own Mitchell Adjusting International.
Brotherhood Mutual ended up sending three checks to the adjuster, totaling more than $6 million. Aga forg
ed the church leaders’ names on the check and forwarded only about a third of the total to the church, the court records note.
On top of the fraud, the construction firm left much of the repair work unfinished. When church leaders challenged
Aga about the work, he claimed that the insurance company was withholding complete payment.