Charles Michael Coles, a 43-year-old man from Minnesota, has been indicted for conspiring to defraud his employer.
According to the indictment, Coles was employed as a buyer/inventory coordinator for an Illinois-based food packaging and processing company and was responsible for maintaining the parts inventory of a food packaging plant located in Lakeville, Minnesota.
The indictment alleges that Coles devised a scheme to defraud his employer by submitting false invoices for industrial supplies and parts purportedly supplied by several fictitious industrial supply companies.
Cooperating with his co-conspirators, Steve Crook, Aaron Ash, Darren Gardner, Jacqueline Robinson, and William Dampier, Coles submitted fraudulent purchase orders and invoices to his employer from each of his co-conspirators’ fictitious companies.
As a result of this scheme, Coles and his co-conspirators caused the company to pay approximately $1.8 million in false and fraudulent invoices.
The defendants are expected to make initial appearances on December 15, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Coles is charged with conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota.
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Key Facts
- State: Minnesota
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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