Umer Hassan Mir, Gas Station Billing Fraud, New Jersey 2022
Newark, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, gas station manager has admitted to bilking Amtrak out of $78,000 in fuel charges, officials announced.
Umer Hassan Mir, 40, of South Amboy, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to knowingly and with intent to defraud effecting transactions with one or more access devices issued to other persons having a value over $1,000, over a one-year period of time.
Between February 2018 and August 2021, Mir worked at a Delta gas station in Metuchen, New Jersey, where he caused numerous fraudulent fuel charges to be entered on fuel credit cards leased by the General Services Administration (GSA) and assigned to Amtrak vehicles.
Mir would manually enter account information regarding fuel credit cards that he personally collected and saved during legitimate fuel transactions electronically into the point-of-sale terminal at the Delta gas station. Following false fuel transactions, Mir withdrew cash in the amount of the fraudulent transaction from the gas station’s cash register.
The access fraud charge carries a maximum potential penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled for December 13, 2022.
U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger credited special agents of the Amtrak Office of Inspector General, Eastern Region, the GSA Office of Inspector General, Northeast Field Investigations Division, and postal inspectors with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Philadelphia Division, with the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea.
The government is represented by Senior Trial Counsel Leslie Faye Schwartz of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Special Prosecutions Division.
Defendant: Umer Hassan Mir
Criminal Charge: Knowingly and with intent to defraud effecting transactions with one or more access devices issued to other persons having a value over $1,000, over a one-year period of time
City and State: Newark, New Jersey
Exact Date: Between February 2018 and August 2021
Sentence or Outcome: Sentencing scheduled for December 13, 2022
Dollar Amounts: $78,000 in fraudulent fuel charges
Key Facts
- State: New Jersey
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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