LINCOLN, Neb.-- United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that 47-year-old Codie D. Malesker, of Hastings, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln.  The United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Malesker to five years’ probation for Mail Fraud. As part of his probation, Malesker will have to serve 15 weekends in jail, and he was ordered to pay $63,443.77 in restitution.

Malesker was an insurance agent with Midwest Regional Agency since July 15th, 2013, and he operated Malesker Agency, LLC in Hastings. He also served as a pastor and board member at Faith Community Tabernacle in Hastings and was a company partner in Shaun Peck Family Construction, LLC. 

Malesker was responsible for the financial management of the construction company. As a result of this position, he had access to the bank account of the construction company, retained possession of the checks and debit cards for the company, as well as had access to an Intuit account to generate estimates with the company letterhead.

Over a roughly four-year period, Malesker issued policies to himself, his insurance agency, and Faith Community Tabernacle and then made fraudulent claims against those policies and would divert those proceeds to accounts controlled by himself.

As a result of this scheme to defraud, he caused an actual loss of $76,296.48. 

In one such instance, Malesker filed a theft loss claim against his Continental Western Insurance Group policy reporting $13,388 in premium cash and $18,723.11 in personal property as being stolen from the Malesker Agency Office.

In support of this claim, Malesker submitted fraudulent receipts and bank records. As a result of this fraudulent claim, Continental Western Insurance Group mailed two claims checks totaling $31,648.77 from Des Moines, Iowa to Malesker in Hastings.

This case was investigated by the Nebraska Department of Insurance and the United States Postal Inspection Service.