Wire fraud

Ex-Roadrunner dispatch manager sentenced to 18 months for wire fraud

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A federal judge has sentenced a Kansas woman to 18 months in prison for stealing nearly $113,000...

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Nikola founder Trevor Milton guilty on 3 fraud counts

Lawyers and Trevor Milton walk to court

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton was found guilty of three federal counts of fraud on Friday following a 3 1/2-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District in Manhattan, New York. Prosecutors called Milton a liar and “con man” who intentionally defrauded investors in the electric truck startup.

Milton, 40, was convicted on one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud, including the acquisition of a Utah ranch partially paid for with Nikola stock options that...

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Fourth mariner credential scammer heads for slammer

Lamont Godfrey, 43, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced to 45 months in prison, August 16, for mail fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Godfrey became the fourth person to receive a prison term in relation to a scheme to create and sell fake merchant mariner credentials that first came to light when charges were brought against the four last October.

According to court documents, from July 2016 to December 2019, Godfrey and three others—Eugene Johnson, 46, of Manteca, Calif.;...

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Ex-trucking CFO sentenced in $8 million wire fraud, tax scheme

Ex-Bison Global CFO sentenced to four eyars

The former chief financial officer of a Texas logistics company was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Wednesday and ordered to pay back nearly $8 million for her involvement in an elaborate five-year fraud and tax evasion scheme.

Nicolette “Nicky” Osborne, 50, of Pflugerville, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement on an income tax return in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in February 2020. 

Prosecutors claim...

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Ex-fleet manager accused of bilking $1.6M from company

Ex-fleet manager wire fraud charges

A federal grand jury has indicted a former fleet manager of publicly traded construction products manufacturer, alleging he defrauded his employer of $1.6 million by using company credit cards to fund his candle-making businesses, purchase first-class airline tickets and visit Hooters. 

Steven Duety, 45, of Plano, Texas, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud, according to a grand jury indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the...

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Sentencing date set for bookkeeper in $700,000 trucking fraud scheme

Trucking bookkeeper and office manager Christen Schulte is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 5

A Feb. 5 sentencing date has been set for a bookkeeper who pleaded guilty to devising an elaborate scheme to defraud a family-owned trucking company and farm in Missouri out of more than $700,000.

Christen Diane Schulte, 34, of Washington, Missouri, pleaded guilty in August to wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering charges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

At that time, U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig scheduled Schulte for sentencing on Nov. 10. However,...

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Oregan man sentenced in $3.2 million fraud scheme targeting trucking investors

Neil Kauhi was sentenced to 8 years in prison

An Oregan man was recently sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay back over $3.2 million for his role in an elaborate fraud scheme while living in Hawaii.

Neil Kauhi, 52, of Wilsonville, Oregon, previously pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Senior U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor sentenced Kauhi to 97 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay more than $3.2 million in restitution in mid-December. He also consented to...

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Ex-trucking employee sentenced in wire fraud case

Ex-payroll clerk for Blachowske Trucking sentenced to 3 years

A former billing and payroll clerk for Blachowske Truck Line was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison and ordered to pay back nearly $580,000.

Sheila Verbrugge, 50, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in September. Prosecutors claim she used her position at Blachowske Truck Line, headquartered in Brandon, where she worked for nearly 14 years, to divert funds from her employer into her personal accounts.

U.S. District Judge Karen...

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Ex-payroll clerk accused of swiping funds from trucking company

Former payroll clerk indicted on 16 counts of wire fraud

The former billing and payroll clerk for a South Dakota trucking company has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 16 counts of wire fraud. 

The indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, claims that Sheila Verbrugge, 50, used her position to divert funds from her employer into her personal accounts.

She pleaded not guilty in federal court on Aug. 25. 

According to court records, Verbrugge worked for Blachowske Truck Line, headquartered in Brandon, South Dakota, for...

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Trucking company owner indicted in PPP loan fraud, Ponzi scheme

Federal investigators have charged a reality TV star and owner of a trucking company with bank fraud and money laundering, alleging he misused funds meant to help small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prosecutors allege that Maurice Fayne, aka “Arkansas Mo,” 37, of Dacula, Georgia, who appeared on VH1’s reality TV show “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” applied for and received a $3.7 million loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in mid-April for his trucking company,...

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