Midland Woman Admits Role in Wire Fraud Scheme

In a shocking turn of events, 54-year-old former federal fugitive Judy Kay Fryar pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a wire fraud scheme that caused an estimated $140,000 loss to her employer, SKP Holdings in California.

Fryar, who was the onsite property manager for the West Park Apartments in Midland, accepted cash payments from tenants and used those monies for her own personal benefit. She altered various tenant lease payments in the company’s online property management records in an attempt to conceal her scheme. The scheme was revealed in 2011 when an owner who was conducting an on-site visit encountered a West Park Apartment tenant attempting to make a rental payment with cash.

Fryar also obstructed justice by falsely fabricating a medical condition to obtain favor, sympathy, and ten consecutive continuances between January 2013 and July 2015 for jury selection and trial on the above-mentioned wire fraud charge. She forged two letters and medical records from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to support her materially false representations.

The court reset jury selection and trial dates based on materially false representations that Fryar had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer and was undergoing extensive radiation, chemotherapy, and other experimental treatments. However, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center notified Fryar that she was negative for carcinoma, melanoma, and sarcoma, thus, she did not require cancer treatment and/or any other related services at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Fryar was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force at her family’s lake house in Coke County following the issuance of a bench warrant after she failed to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing earlier in the month. She faces up to 20 years imprisonment on the wire fraud charge and up to 10 years imprisonment for the obstruction charge.

Judy Kay Fryar, 54, of Midland, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. Fryar was the onsite property manager for the West Park Apartments in Midland. The wire fraud scheme occurred from October 2009 to June 2011, causing an estimated $140,000 loss to her employer, SKP Holdings in California. Fryar remains in federal custody pending sentencing before United States District Judge Robert A. Junell. Sentencing is scheduled for February 25, 2016. This investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Midland Police Department Fraud Unit, and the United States Marshals Service.

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