A 74-year-old Rochester man has been sentenced to one year of home confinement for his role in a massive money laundering scheme.
Brian Campbell, a former employee of convicted co-defendant Kenneth Griffin, was convicted of conspiring to launder money in a scheme that involved creating false invoices and other supporting documents.
Griffin, who was sentenced to 46 months in prison, used the staffing business to commit fraud, selling false invoices to financing companies on a weekly basis for immediate cash.
When a financing company realized it had been sold uncollectible invoices, Griffin would change business names and continue the scheme with another financing company.
The conspiracy, which involved Griffin and several others, sought to conceal their ill-gotten gains, which totaled approximately $567,000, by laundering the proceeds of the fraud using anonymous debit cards.
Campbell, who worked for Griffin at the employment staffing business, was directed to withdraw cash from ATMs using the anonymous debit cards and return with the money, which was shared among the co-conspirators.
The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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