Draper attorney charged with laundering money from fraud scheme Associated Press and last updated 2021-03-16 18:15:02-04 SALT LAKE CITY â A Draper attorney was charged Monday in federal court with one count of conspiring to launder money obtained via wire fraud. The accomplice, Christopher Hales, previously pleaded guilty to operating the scheme and will be sentenced in April. Kober is accused of opening a bank account in the name of the software company, Sindakit Software. Both Kober and Hales used the account to launder the money obtained by Hales. Officials say Kober accepted wire transactions from one victim totaling $405,000, and then redistributed the funds to other victims. Kober also wired $15,000 to his own law firm's bank account.