Former grass seed worker sentenced in $1.5M fraud
He was caught sending out different seed than customers thought they were getting. He and his partner called it “getting creative.” That was Scheme No. 1.
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He was caught sending out different seed than customers thought they were getting. He and his partner called it “getting creative.” That was Scheme No. 1.
A 12-person Eagle County jury on Wednesday found Asa Robinson guilty of one count of criminal mischief, two counts of obstructing a peace officer, and two counts of menacing following an incident at an Eagle...
A 12-person Eagle County jury on Wednesday found Asa Robinson guilty of one count of criminal mischief, two counts of obstructing a peace officer, and two counts of menacing following an incident at an Eagle...
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A Washington man has been sentenced in a multimillionaire fraud scheme that involved grass seed at facilities in Albany and Jefferson. Christopher Claypool, 53, of Spokane, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Claypool already has paid nearly $8.3 million in restitution and agreed to forfeit nearly $7.8 million in criminally derived proceeds from his schemes. Claypool pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in multiple schemes, some of which involved an Alb...