Former Festus Postmaster Teresa Tremusini was sentenced to 24 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for her role in a mail fraud scheme that resulted in a loss to the U.S. Postal Service of approximately $3.8 million. She is the third of four accomplices to be sentenced in the case.
When Niagara Falls businessman John J. Gross Jr. stood in front of a federal judge on Tuesday, he looked as calm as a man walking into a coffee shop to order a toasted bagel. His face showed no sign of jitters, even though he was about to take a felony guilty plea that -- at age 75 -- could put him in prison for years.
A scheme to save money on mailing costs went bust when it was discovered by federal authorities. A former Festus postmaster, a postal employee and the owner of a direct mail company have been indicted in federal court on the $2.9 million mail fraud scheme.
BANGOR - U.S. District Court Judge George Singal had hoped never to see Todd Denson again when the federal jurist in June 2007 sentenced the Stockton Springs man to 18 months in prison for mail and wire fraud. Denson, 50, was back before Singal on Friday to be sentenced for again soliciting money to send overseas in an international scam.
Dear Savvy Senior: How can I reduce the junk mail my elderly mother gets? She gets about 25 pieces of junk mail each day, and I just discovered that she's given away nearly $2,000 during the past year to many of the sleazy groups that mail her this junk. How can I stop this? - Frustrated Daughter Dear Frustrated: Millions of seniors get bombarded with unwanted junk mail these days, including mail fraud schemes that you and your mom need to be particularly leery of. Here's what you can do to help.
SAN JUAN, P.R., March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 12, 2010, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an 83-count indictment charging Nancy Hernandez-Chavez, her daughter Noemi Perez Hernandez, Manuel "Manolo" Vargas-Colon, Iris Yadith Ortiz Rodriguez, Eric Samuel Pastrana-Miray and Luis Fernando Capo- Ramos of conspiracy, bank fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez Velez. The indictment alleges that from approximately October 2006 through September 2007, New York Mortgage Bankers (NYMB), acting through its management team consisting of all of the above named defendants, engaged in a loan kiting scheme that involved more than $4.4 million in loan proceeds.
Twelfth Survey of White Collar Crime The mail and wire fraud federal criminal statutes have proved very valuable to federal prosecutors, particularly when Congress was still in the process of drafting a particularized fraud statute. Mail fraud involves a scheme to defraud, and intent to defraud and use of the US mails or an interstate carrier. The wire fraud statute is similarly structured but requires that the defrauder's communication cross state lines. In 1994, Congress enacted the Senior Citizens Against Marketing Scams Act to provide heightened penalties for telemarketing fraud targeting people 55 and over.
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