Kemp Appoints New Acting Insurance Commissioner, Replacing Indicted Jim Beck

Updated Thursday at 3:50 p.m.

Gov. Brian Kemp has named a new acting insurance commissioner: John King, chief of Doraville police is filling the shoes of Jim Beck, who was indicted last month for embezzling more than $2 million from a former employer, the Georgia Underwriting Association. 

Beck was indicted by a federal grand jury on 38 charges of money laundering, wire fraud and mail fraud. A few days later he suspended himself, though he maintains his innocence.