A 72-year-old Owings Mills insurance agent has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 in life-insurance commissions through a scheme that stretched across four years, falsified applicant identities, and left dozens of policies collapsing once he stopped paying the premiums. Gregory A. Maslow entered his plea in Baltimore County, admitting to a fraud that prosecutors say ran from May 2015 through May 2019.
A Years-Long Pattern of Fake Applications
According to WBFF, which reported the plea citing the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, Maslow submitted more than 75 life-insurance applications over the course of the scheme. Many of those applications, per the same account, named friends, family members, and even Maslow himself as the insured — and some were filed without the knowledge or permission of the people whose names appeared on them, according to NottinghamMD.
Maslow is accused of falsely claiming that other licensed agents had solicited, sold, and submitted the applications, then impersonating both those agents and the applicants themselves during phone calls to insurance providers, NottinghamMD reported. That impersonation, prosecutors say, was central to how he was able to collect commissions that were never meant for him.
Commissions Collected, Then Premiums Abandoned
Once an application was approved, insurance companies paid out significant upfront commissions designated for the named agent, the outlet’s report states. Maslow allegedly sent those commissions into joint accounts he had set up, then transferred the funds into another account under his sole control — all without intending to keep paying the premiums for long, according to the same reporting.
The result, per NottinghamMD, was that policies lapsed for nonpayment once Maslow had already pocketed the upfront money. In some cases, he reportedly convinced applicants to sign on by offering to cover all or part of their premiums himself, only to let the coverage collapse once the commission had cleared.
Plea Deal Sets Prison Term and License Revocation
Under a binding plea agreement described by WBFF, Maslow will serve 30 days in prison followed by five years of supervised probation after his release. He must also pay restitution and has consented to revocation of his insurance-producer license. If he violates the terms of his probation, Maslow could face up to four additional years and 11 months of incarceration, per the station’s report.
Maslow is scheduled to be sentenced on November 23. The case adds to a string of insurance-fraud actions in Maryland this year; the state’s Insurance Fraud and Producer Enforcement Unit reported eight indictments, five convictions, and 10 cases still awaiting trial as of an August 7 update from the Office of Governor Wes Moore, which also announced that more than $53.5 million had been recovered for consumers statewide in the first half of 2026.
Maslow’s case follows a separate, far larger Owings Mills fraud prosecution: a federal jury convicted Maureen Wilson in March 2025 in a $20 million life-insurance fraud scheme spanning more than 40 policies, according to Insurance Business. Similar schemes have surfaced outside Maryland as well — the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has charged an insurance agent with providing co-conspirators free high-value life-insurance policies in order to collect more than $200,000 in commissions.
