Patrick Giblin, Escape and Wire Fraud, New Jersey 2022

An Atlantic City, New Jersey man has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for escaping from federal custody and engaging in a scheme to defraud women over telephone dating services, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Patrick Giblin, 58, pleaded guilty to one count of escape from the custody of the Attorney General and one count of wire fraud in federal court in Camden.

According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court, Giblin escaped from custody on July 23, 2020, while traveling from a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to a residential living facility in Newark.

He had been serving a sentence imposed in 2017 for traveling interstate and using an interstate facility to promote unlawful activity in connection with a scheme to defraud multiple women. Giblin’s 2017 sentence followed an earlier sentence of 115 months in prison for a 2007 wire fraud conviction for a similar fraud scheme.

The U.S. Marshals Service located and arrested Giblin in Atlantic City on March 10, 2021.

From April 2019 through March 2021, Giblin posted advertisements and messages on telephone dating services, falsely claiming he would be relocating to the woman’s geographic area and representing that he wished to pursue a committed, romantic relationship with each woman.

During this time, Giblin received money from the women he spoke to on the dating services via interstate wire services such as Western Union and MoneyGram.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Kugler sentenced Giblin to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution of $23,428.

U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited members of the U.S. Marshals Service, District of New Jersey, and special agents of the FBI, Atlantic City Resident Agency, with the investigation leading to today’s sentencing.

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