Dante G. Dixon, Wire Fraud, New Jersey 2013

A man from Florida and Ohio has admitted to his role in defrauding a charter flight company and other merchants of hundreds of thousands of dollars in luxury goods and services, authorities said.

According to prosecutors, Dante G. Dixon, 45, of Miami, Fla., and Akron, Ohio, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The scheme involved Dixon and others fraudulently obtaining at least three private charter flights from Jet Aviation, an international business aviation services company, with U.S. headquarters in Teterboro, N.J., which provides charter flight services.

Dixon and others 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 were employees at the financial institution.

As a result of their misrepresentations to Jet Aviation, Dixon and others fraudulently obtained private high-end charter flights and limousine car services, with a total value of $175,790, for which Jet Aviation never received payment.

The conspiracy to commit wire fraud to which Dixon pleaded guilty is punishable by a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Sentencing is scheduled for April 23, 2014.

The case was brought in coordination with President Barack Obama’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, a coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies.

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