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(ABC 6 News) - A Waseca travel agency owner pleaded guilty today to a scheme to defraud travel agents out of more than $400,000 in commission payments, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
According to court documents, Matthew Harold Schumacher, 45, was owner and operator of Travel Troops, LLC, and Vacation Agent Nation, LLP, which were host travel agencies based in Waseca, Minnesota. Through his businesses, Schumacher purported to provide host travel services to independent travel agents throughout the United States in exchange for a monthly fee. Schumacher represented that his host travel business was a reliable and profitable means for his fee-paying travel agents to receive higher commission rates from travel industry suppliers, such as airlines, resorts, and cruise companies, than if the individual travel agents booked their customers’ travel arrangements. Pursuant to service agreements that Schuma
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Owner of Waseca travel agency charged with wire fraud
Harald Schumacher allegedly misappropriated nearly $500,000 in commissions owed to travel agents he worked with.
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The owner of a Waseca travel agency has been charged with defrauding the travel agents he worked with, costing them nearly $500,000.
Harald Schumacher was charged with four counts of wire fraud in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Schumacher was the owner of Travel Troops, LLC and Vacation Agent Nation, LLP in Waseca.
Through his companies, Schumacher would provide travel services to independent travel agents for a fee, prosecutors said. Travel agents working with him could then receive a commission from services like airlines when they booked through his companies.
Local travel agent faces charges A federal indictment accuses the owner of two Minnesota travel agencies of defrauding at least 36 travel agents out of nearly $500,000. (Source: Associated Press) By Kelsey Barchenger | December 17, 2020 at 11:48 AM CST - Updated December 17 at 11:48 AM
WASECA, Minn. (KEYC) - A federal indictment accuses the owner of two Minnesota travel agencies of defrauding at least 36 travel agents out of nearly $500,000.
44-year-old Matthew Schumacher, of Waseca, is charged with four counts of wire fraud.
Authorities say Schumacher was the owner and operator of Travel Troops, and Vacation Agent Nation, which were host travel agencies based in Waseca. He allegedly offered to provide travel services to independent agents throughout the country in exchange for a monthly fee and promised higher commission rates from airlines, resorts, and cruise companies. Instead, according to the indictment, he kept $484,000 in commission payments owed to the agents.
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