BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Maurice William Campbell Jr., a scheme to use his position as director of the Alabama Small Business Development Consortium to obtain $7.3 million from the state, led to a conviction.
U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama collected $14.5 million in Fiscal Year 2013 from criminal and civil actions, and an additional $12.2 million in criminal and civil forfeitures.
In addition to the $2.3 million the office collected on its own through civil and criminal actions, it worked with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices or Justice Department components to collect an additional $184 million in cases pursued jointly.
The Northern District of Alabama participated in 2013 collections resulting from the Justice Department’s $184 million fair lending settlement with Wells Fargo Bank.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department collected about $8.1 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
U.S. Attorney Vance said, ‘I am proud of the hard work by employees in my office that allowed us to return more money to the taxpayer than we were allotted in our budget for the year.’
Maurice William Campbell Jr. was convicted of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering in a scheme to use his position as director of the Alabama Small Business Development Consortium to obtain $7.3 million from the state. A federal judge sentenced Campbell to 15 years in prison and ordered him to pay $5.9 million in restitution to the State of Alabama and to forfeit $7.6 million to the federal government as proceeds of illegal activity.
The largest civil collections were from affirmative civil enforcement cases, in which the United States recovered government money lost to fraud or other misconduct or collected fines imposed on individuals and/or corporations for violations of federal health, safety, civil rights or environmental laws.
Among the cases that led to the office’s $12.2 million in asset forfeitures was the conviction of Maurice William Campbell Jr.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama collected $2.1 million as part of criminal prosecutions and $216,562 was recovered through civil lawsuits and debt collections.
The office seized $1.2 million in assets in the 2013 fiscal year towards the forfeiture judgment.
A total of three other people who worked with Campbell were convicted in the fraud scheme.
The U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, along with the Justice Department’s litigating divisions, are responsible for enforcing and collecting civil and criminal debts owed to the U.S., and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims.
While restitution is paid directly to the victim, criminal fines and felony assessments are paid to the department’s Crime Victims’ Fund, which distributes the funds to state victim compensation and victim assistance programs.
Maurice William Campbell Jr. was sentenced on February 21, 2013, and ordered to pay $5.9 million in restitution to the State of Alabama and to forfeit $7.6 million to the federal government as proceeds of illegal activity.
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Key Facts
- State: Alabama
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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