Woonsocket man sentenced for banking fraud
May 19, 2009
Total Loss:
$280,000
A Woonsocket man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison Friday for writing bad checks totaling more than $280,000 to buy merchandise at retail stores in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Judge William E. Smith, who imposed the sentence, also ordered Marcelli to pay restitution of $283,033.45 to cover the bad checks that were used to purchase the merchandise. The authorities said that between April 2004 and April 2005 Marcelli solicited three people to open bank accounts and then used checks from this accounts to purchase the items.
Source:
Providence Journal
Posted in:
Check Fraud