New Hartford exec admits to stealing more than $775K, losing it on African diamond investment
New Hartford exec admits to stealing more than $775K, losing it on African diamond investment Updated 11:02 PM; A New Hartford company’s chief financial officer admitted Thursday to stealing $776,000 from his firm to invest it partly in African diamonds, federal prosecutors said. Michael Bartusek, 58, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and filing a false tax return, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York. The plea comes just more than a year after Bartusek was originally charged. From the summer of 2015 through 2016, Bartusek defrauded a...
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