Former HCPC employee sentenced to prison
BANGOR A Newport woman who had been the interim executive director of the Hancock County Planning Commission was sentenced May 27 in federal court for wire fraud and federal government program theft, acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. sentenced Sheri G. Walsh, 56, to two years in prison and three years of supervised release. Walsh also was ordered to pay approximately $325,000 in restitution. She pleaded guilty in December 2020.
According to court records, from June 2015 through April 2019, Walsh embezzled more than $325,000 from two not-for-profit organizations where she had previously been employed. Walsh carried out the scheme by fraudulently transferring funds from one organization to another, then converting the funds to her own use. During the relevant period, one of the not-for-profits received federal grant monies from both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S.
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PORTLAND The driver of a van that carried three Bronx men to several Maine Home Depot stores including Auburn in an effort to defraud the stores was sentenced to time-served behind bars.
Mickey Augusto Mejia Rosario of the Bronx, New York.
Androscoggin County Jail
A U.S. District Court judge last week sentenced Mickey Augusto Mejia Rosario, 25, of New York on a charge of conspiracy to possess a fraudulent access device to the one day on which he was arrested and booked at Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, plus three years on supervised release.
Rosario had been facing up to five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine for the felony.
During that sentencing, Woodcock referred to Reyes as the “ringleader” of the trio, explaining that he had covered the travel expenses and provided the false identities used in the fraud.
The third defendant, Mickey Augusto Mejia-Rosario, 24, has pleaded guilty to the same charge and is scheduled to be sentenced next month.
Prosecutors said the trio had sought to defraud the big-box chain stores by opening store credit card accounts using driver’s license information belonging to deceased people.
They were arrested in Auburn on Nov. 26, 2019, by local police after failing to make purchases at self-checkout stations at the Home Depot store on Mount Auburn Avenue using recently obtained store credit.