2 Philadelphia Men Sentenced In $2.4M Fraud Scheme Targeting Linthicum Company

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A national justice connected Tuesday sentenced 2 Philadelphia men for conspiring to scam a Linthicum institution retired of $2.4 million.

Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Mean Peach, 65, to 2 years successful national prison. Eam Peng Chou, 56, received a twelvemonth and a time successful national prison. Each volition service 3 years of supervised merchandise aft their situation presumption are up, prosecutors said. Bredar besides ordered each antheral to wage $1.6 cardinal successful restitution.

Peach, Chou and co-defendants Chonnathason Has and Thi Ho worked with Kevin Miller, the manager of planning, logistics and power for the Linthicum company. He was successful the concern of making idiosyncratic attraction products similar hairsbreadth attraction and lotions.

Miller was liable for determining the timing and measurement requirements for materials the institution utilized successful manufacturing and could independently o.k. payments of invoices submitted by vendors and work providers.

The 5 co-conspirators admitted successful plea agreements to moving to defraud the institution successful a strategy dating backmost to September 2015. At that time, the institution gave Miller the task of uncovering vendors to dispose of discarded products stored astatine their 2 Maryland warehouses.

The co-conspirators acceptable up ammunition companies to taxable fraudulent invoices for discarded disposal and different enactment that was ne'er done. Miller signed disconnected connected the fraudulent invoices, causing the institution to chopped checks to the scammers, who would past currency the checks successful Philadelphia.

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Ho was earlier sentenced to astir 4 years successful national situation and ordered to wage restitution. Has is acceptable to beryllium sentenced adjacent week and Miller volition look sentencing successful October.