Testified against his father, "Bud" Skillern, in an insurance fraud (which ended in a guilty verdict and sentence for Skillern Sr. of 25 years) to actively being a part of his father's fraud scheme, admitted to conspiracy to destroy evidence and destroying evidence under oath.
"Appellant's son, Michael Don Skillern, testified that his father had been "associated" with the insurance company for four or four and one-half years. At his father's suggestion, the witness worked at the insurance company without pay, doing computer work for his father. The younger Skillern set up the annuity program with the computer retrieval name of "Bud's Life Insurance Program." "Bud" was appellant's nickname. The program had an "erase" feature in the event of an investigation by the State Board of Insurance."
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