A federal grand jury indicted a Lee’s Summit man, Randy Wilson, in a $1 million fraud scheme against his former employer.
Wilson, 50, was charged on Tuesday.
The federal indictment alleges Wilson engaged defrauded his former employer, RF Fisher, in Kansas City, Kan., of approximately $992,000. The scheme allegedly took place from August 2000 to June 2008.
According to information from U.S. Attorney Matt J. Whitworth, Fisher hired Wilson in 1998 as project manager of its Informational Systems Division and later promoted him to vice president of the division until he was fired in June 2008.
According to the indictment, Wilson made an agreement with Robert Northington of Lee’s Summit, the owner of RJN Sales, LLC. Wilson would order products for Fisher through RJN, with RJN acting as the middleman. RJN would pay the vendors for those products, and then Wilson would create invoices from RJN to be submitted to Fisher.
Wilson allegedly inflated the true cost of the products when billing Fisher. When Fisher issued checks to RJN as payment of the inflated invoices, Wilson and Northington split the markup. Northington wrote checks or wire transferred funds to Wilson, Wilson’s wife or mother-in-law, Wilson’s car and boat dealers, and various contractors doing work on Wilson’s residence and lake house. Wilson illegally obtained approximately $630,000 from Fisher, the indictment says.
The indictment charges Wilson with one count of interstate transportation of stolen money and five counts of money laundering.
If convicted, Wilson would have to forfeit to the government any proceeds obtained from the alleged violations, including $1 million in cash, his home in Lee’s Summit and his lake house in Climax Springs, Mo., a 2003 Honda Accord, a 2009 Chevrolet Traverse, a 2006 Hyundai Tucson, a 2002 Bennington Marine pontoon boat, four jetskis and a 2000 Maxum Cruiser boat.
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