Defendant Sentenced in Wire Fraud Scheme Involving Loss of Nearly $2 Million

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2013-12-24

Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that William Frazier, 43, of Midland, Georgia, was sentenced on Thursday, December 19, 2013, to serve 51 months’ imprisonment for wire fraud. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Clay D. Land, United States District Court Judge in Columbus, Georgia.

Mr. Frazier entered a plea of guilty on August 16, 2013. In his plea agreement, the defendant admitted that on August 31, 2010, he made an unauthorized Omega Visa credit card purchase in the amount of $47,250 for a statue of a golfer. On January 27, 2010, he sent an unauthorized wire transfer in the amount of$75,312.87 from the state of Georgia to the states of Delaware and then to Maryland, which he used to pay personal bills. The credit cards used in those transactions had been issued to Mr. Frazier by his employer for business use only, but he used same to make personal purchases and to obtain funds for his personal use. The total amount of the fraud was $1,900,000.

Source: U.S.Federal Bureau of Investigation

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