Hung Jury:

October 17, 2023

The Federal Government Charged our client with Conspiracy to commit Wire Fraud and five counts of Wire Fraud in an elaborate scheme where the victims were told the IRS had large penalties against them requiring them to deposit large sums of cash into our client’s bank accounts in their home states resulting in over one million dollars in losses.

Treasury investigators visited our client to discuss the money deposited into his accounts; they claimed our client confessed to two different agents that he had committed this crime. The Jury was unable to reach a verdict after our defense that our client was used and fooled by the same elusive criminals who fooled the victims, and the Agents were untruthful or mistaken about a confession; he only acknowledged the moneys came through his account. On the eve of the retrial, the prosecutors agreed to dismiss all but two of the charges and recommend no jail and probation to the Judge.