Updated: 3:01 PM CDT July 8, 2021
MIDLAND, Texas An Odessa business owner will be spending 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud-related charges.
James Clinton Fletcher, 45, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of willful failure to pay employee tax withholdings to the IRS.
Fletcher was the owner of San Jan Oilfield Services, LLC.
U.S. District Judge David Counts ordered Fletcher to pay $18,279,111 in restitution to his victims as well as $1,177,231 in restitution to the IRS.
He also ordered Fletcher to be placed on supervised release for three years following his release from prison.
and last updated 2021-06-29 18:00:31-04
A Killeen couple admitted Tuesday, June 29, to defrauding the U.S. Army in a multi-million-dollar scheme through a Fort Hood mass transportation benefit program.
U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff, along with representatives from the Army CIC-MPFUâs Southwestern Fraud Field Office and IRS Criminal Investigation Houston Field Office, made the announcement.
According to the release, Kevin Romulus Pelayo, 42, and Cristine Furio Fredericks, 37, admitted to providing false documentation, using personal information from 1,000 unsuspecting soldiers, to collect funds from a mass transportation benefit program from between January 2014 to June 2020. Pelayo and Fredericks ride-share program at Fort Hood was called Soldiers Vanpools, LLC.
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