Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 — An insurance agency founder was recently placed on four years of supervised release and fined $10,000 in Washington, D.C., after earlier pleading guilty to insurance fraud, according to officials. Washington, D.C., Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking announced last week that Bret Van Leeuwen, former president of Utah-based Stratus Insurance Services, pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Van Leeuwen, 52, who has been working in the insurance industry for more than 30 years, pled guilty to one count of insurance fraud in the second degree.