John Voloshin, 68, a New Haven and Woodbridge man, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and identity theft offenses in Hartford federal court, bringing an end to a staggering string of financial crimes that left victims reeling.
According to court documents, Voloshin’s troubles with the law began in May 2012, when he was sentenced to 33 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for operating multiple fraud schemes that caused losses of more than $1.5 million to individuals and lenders. He was released from prison in May 2014, only to be sentenced to an additional nine months of imprisonment in November 2014 for violating the terms and conditions of his federal supervised release.
Voloshin’s crimes didn’t stop there. In the fall of 2015, he engaged in another fraud scheme, soliciting money from individuals and falsely representing that the money would be fully invested to generate very high returns. He was sentenced to 27 months of imprisonment in November 2017 for the offense and for violating his supervised release, and ordered to pay $275,000 in restitution.
But Voloshin’s most recent scheme was perhaps his most brazen. Between January and April 2019, he defrauded a company in Bloomfield that provided accounting and tax preparation services to individuals and companies. Voloshin stole blank checks for both the company’s business account and the company owner’s personal account, forged the owner’s name on the checks, and negotiated the checks for his own benefit.
Through this scheme, Voloshin defrauded victims of $56,548.71. He was arrested on July 14, 2021, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has been detained since his arrest. Voloshin pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud, which carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years, and one count of aggravated identity theft, which carries a mandatory term of imprisonment of two years.
U.S. Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery thanked Interpol and Brazilian authorities for their assistance in apprehending Voloshin, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs for coordinating the extradition proceedings in this matter. Voloshin is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny on August 22.
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Key Facts
- State: Connecticut
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: Official Source ↗
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