Financial Fraud: Roberson Excavation, Inc. Pled Guilty to Committing Wire Fraud

Florida Corporation Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud Related to Falsified Water Testing

<h2>Florida Corporation Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud Related to Falsified Water Testing<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Dothan&comma; Ala&period; – Last Thursday&comma; June 8&comma; 2017&comma; Roberson Excavation&comma; Inc&period; &lpar;Roberson Excavation&rpar;&comma; a company headquartered in Milton&comma; Florida&comma; pled guilty to committing wire fraud&comma; announced Acting United States Attorney A&period; Clark Morris&period; The conviction stemmed from a company employee falsifying water samples during the installation of new water lines in Dale County&comma; Alabama&period; That employee&comma; Darin Lewis&comma; 46&comma; of Crestview&comma; Florida&comma; previously pled guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company initially proceeded to trial but changed its plea before it concluded&period; According to the trial evidence&comma; in 2014&comma; the Dale County Water Authority hired Roberson Excavation to install new water lines in the Marley Mill area of Dale County&period; Roberson Excavation was supposed to complete the project by November of 2014&comma; however it failed to do so&period; As a result&comma; the company began paying penalties of &dollar;500 for each day the project went incomplete&period; In January of 2015&comma; Roberson Excavation hired Lewis to serve as the project’s foreman&period; In an effort to speed along the completion of the project&comma; Lewis devised a scheme to falsify the bacteriological testing required to place the new water lines into service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Specifically&comma; on February 17&comma; 2015&comma; Lewis&comma; acting on behalf of Roberson Excavation&comma; submitted to a laboratory water from a portion of the new lines that had already been tested and shown to be clear of bacteria&period; When he did so&comma; Lewis falsely claimed that he had drawn the water from an untested portion of the line&period; As a result of Lewis’s actions&comma; Roberson Excavation was able to place into service water lines that had never been properly tested for harmful bacteria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;53493" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-53493" style&equals;"width&colon; 290px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;medicare-scam-rhine-drug-company-and-andrew-carter-clements-jr-agreed-to-pay-to-resolve-false-claims-act&sol;financial-fraud-roberson-excavation-inc-pled-guilty-to-committing-wire-fraud&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-53493"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-53493" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;Financial-Fraud-Roberson-Excavation-Inc&period;-Pled-Guilty-to-Committing-Wire-Fraud&period;png" alt&equals;"Roberson Excavation&comma; Inc&period; Pled Guilty to Committing Wire Fraud" width&equals;"290" height&equals;"161" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-53493" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Roberson Excavation&comma; Inc&period; Pled Guilty to Committing Wire Fraud<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Roberson Excavation clearly placed profit over the well-being of an entire community&comma;” stated Acting United States Attorney Morris&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are thankful that no one became sick as a result of this unlawful corner-cutting and the responsible parties deserve to be held accountable for their potentially dangerous actions&period; Access to clean drinking water is essential for our daily living—my office&comma; in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency— will work diligently to ensure that the residents of our district are not deprived of such a basic necessity&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The falsification of laboratory data&comma; which was funded by U&period;S&period; Environmental Protection Agency &lpar;EPA&rpar; state revolving funds&comma; is completely unacceptable&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Sean Earle&comma; Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Office&comma; EPA&comma; Office of Inspector General&period; &&num;8220&semi;This guilty plea by Roberson Excavation&comma; Inc&period; demonstrates the OIG&&num;8217&semi;s commitment to work successfully with our law enforcement partners&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On September 11&comma; 2017&comma; United States District Judge Carlos E&period; Mendoza will sentence Roberson Excavation and Lewis&period; Roberson Excavation faces a maximum fine of &dollar;250&comma;000&period;00&period; Lewis faces a sentence of up to five years in prison&period; Additionally&comma; as restitution&comma; Roberson Excavation has agreed to release to the Dale County Water Authority up to &dollar;154&comma;000 in money that Roberson Excavation had previously claimed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This case was investigated by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigations Division and Office of Inspector General&period; Assistant United States Attorneys Jonathan S&period; Ross and R&period; Rand Neeley are prosecuting the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-mdal&sol;pr&sol;florida-corporation-pleads-guilty-wire-fraud-related-falsified-water-testing">Original PressReleases&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

Share This Article
Follow:
FraudsWatch is а site reporting on fraud and scammers on internet, in financial services and personal. Providing a daily news service publishes articles contributed by experts; is widely reported in thе latest compliance requirements, and offers very broad coverage of thе latest online theft cases, pending investigations and threats of fraud.
Leave a Comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Exit mobile version