Dante G. Dixon, Christopher L. Henderson, Conspiracy to Defraud, New Jersey 2013

Two men were arrested by federal agents early this morning in Akron, Ohio, for conspiracy to defraud an aviation company out of charter flights and other businesses out of services and luxury goods.

Dante G. Dixon, 45, of Miami, Fla., and Christopher L. Henderson, 32, of Akron, Ohio, were charged by Complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They made their initial court appearances before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Burke in Akron federal court and were ordered held until they can be transported to New Jersey.

According to the Complaint, from May 2013 through June of 2013, Dixon and Henderson and others allegedly conspired to fraudulently obtain at least four private charter flights from Jet Aviation, an international business aviation service with its United States’ headquarters in Teterboro, N.J.

Dixon and Henderson also conspired to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in other luxury goods and services, all via sham lines of credit issued to a well-known financial institution for the defendants and others’ use, by misrepresenting that they and others were employees at the financial institution.

As a result of their misrepresentations to Jet Aviation, Dixon and Henderson and others fraudulently obtained private high-end charter flights and limousine car services, with a total value of $175,790.

The defendants and others made similar misrepresentations about their purported employment at the financial institution to other luxury service providers, including to a Tiffany & Co. store in Bal Harbour, Fla., and to The W South Beach Hotel in Miami, Fla.

These misrepresentations resulted in the defendants and others fraudulently obtaining, via sham lines of credit with Tiffany and The W, approximately $19,991 in watches, sunglasses, sterling silver and leather business cardholders, and men’s cologne from Tiffany.

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