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According to court documents, Ashley was a registered nurse also working as a financial advisor and life insurance agent when he began stealing money from his clients in 2016. He told his victims he would manage and invest their money, but instead used the funds to pay other clients, keep his brewery open, and pay for personal expenses.
Then, on Feb. 19, 2020, the client was murdered. Ashley tried to stage the man's death as a suicide and even collected on his victim's life insurance policy. Ashley also transferred money out of the man's bank account into his own and tried to get a copy of the victim's autopsy report.