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Broker Charged with Fraud…Another Reason to Use an Asset-Based Carrier

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Are you getting robbed by a broker?  Then again, maybe you just don’t know it yet.  As was the case with one broker fraudwho has been scamming people out of their money for the past decade.

Alejandra Mascorro was accused last Tuesday (January 26th) of wire and bankruptcy fraud, leading to his arrest on Wednesday (January 27th).

According to themonitor.com, Mascorro worked for various brokerage companies throughout the years, one of them being Doria, where he was employed from September 2004 to May 2009.

During this time, he recruited people who had been given fake driver’s licenses and addresses in order to cash in numerous $1,000 checks which were supposed to be given to drivers to cover their road expenses, the site notes.

This wasn’t the only company that Mascorro robbed whilst employed at.

At a McAllen brokerage company from May 2009 to March 2010, Mascorro had the company’s customers make out their checks to Ardilla Enterprises Inc., a pretend independent brokerage company he created in which hundreds of thousands of dollars were placed into Mascorro’s account (http://www.themonitor.com/news/mcallen-46805-arrested-wire.html).

To cover up his actions, Mascorro paid his employment company using part of the money customers sent to his make believe company so that it appeared as if he was doing his job.

Mascorro can receive “up to 20 years in prison without parole and a fine of up to $250,000” based on one charge of bankruptcy fraud for misrepresentations on his 2008 income, as well as five charges of wire fraud, themonitor.com explains.

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Safety Official Charged with Bribery Pleads Not Guilty Despite Evidence

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

The Feb. 1st detention hearing for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) official James Wood, who Briberywas indicted last week on bribery charges, is quickly approaching.

According to reports, Wood accepted bribes in exchange for 1. “initiating complaint audits to put a” Canadian “company out of business” and 2. to delay or avoid inspections in order to improve safety ratings (http://www.truckersnews.com/fmcsa-official-pleads-not-guilty-to-bribery/).

According to truckersnews.com, the FBI has evidence to support these accusations including:

-A witness that admits he gave Wood between $60,000 and $70,000 within two years for audit information as well as reschedule the audit

-Tape recordings stating that a $3,000 bribe was given to Wood in exchange for him not to audit certain clients and another $1,000 to delay audits for two clients, one them being “a drug testing company that would switch a positive test result to negative for $1,000.”

-E-mails agreeing to pay Wood $5,000 for a satisfactory rating for two clients.

Despite tape recordings and e-mails exposing this information, Wood pleaded not guilty.

According to thetrucker.com, Wood admitted that he makes $80,000 a year and owes over $200,000 on his home mortgage.

The site acknowledges that Wood needs to undergo a mental health examination due his possession of six firearms and fear that he may be suicidal.

If convicted, he faces a $250,000 fine and 15 years in prison.

Trucking Company Owner Charged With Embezzlement

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Michael Molitor, owner of M.S. Molitor Trucking and MD Service, a freight company in Boulder, MT, pleaded not guilt on charges of embezzlement last week, nearly a month after he was indicted.

Molitor was charged on August 23rd for “failing to deposit funds withheld from employees’ paychecks into their retirement accounts,” Belgrade News states.

According to the article, Molitor is said to have taken $116,000 from his M.S. Molitor employees’ paychecks between September 2004 to March 2008, losing $18,800 worth the interest for not placing the funds in their IRA plan on time, while his MD Service employees lost more than $4,000 out of the $28,000 withheld.

Claiming Chapter 7 bankruptcy a few months ago, Molitor still has not compensated his employees the amount lost, which is being pursued through the U.S. Department of Labor’s lawsuit against him.

Not only does Molitor face two counts of embezzlement but his incapability of providing documentation as well as “failing to comply with agency subpoenas,” while “providing dilatory, false and misleading information throughout the investigation” is also being held against him (http://www.belgrade-news.com/news/article_387a4186-cd22-11df-a028-001cc4c002e0.html).

As Belgrade News notes, if guilty, Molitor could receive “five years in prison” and a quarter of a million dollar fine per indictment charge, as well as “three years supervised release.”

Wouldn’t you rather a carrier like Road Scholar Transport, who supervises your cargo during transport rather than have someone supervising the owner for corruption?

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