KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lee’s Summit man was indicted by a federal grand jury for a $1 million fraud scheme against his former employer.
Randy Wilson, 50, was charged in a six-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on Tuesday.
The indictment alleges Wilson engaged in a fraud scheme from August 2000 to June 2008 that resulted in a loss to his former employer, RF Fisher, located in Kansas City, Kan., of approximately $992,000.
Wilson was hired by Fisher in 1998 as project manager of its Informational Systems Division and later promoted 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, whereby 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.
