Ex-TV Exec Guilty Of Stealing Government Funds
Posted on Thursday, 29 of October , 2009 at 4:09 pm
NEW YORK—Trevor Scotland, the former chief operating officer of NYC-TV, had pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to stealing tens of thousands of dollars in New York City funds.
Until March 13, Scotland was the chief operating officer of NYC-TV, a television station operated and funded in part by New York City. As part of its operations, NYC-TV produced commercials for advertisers to be aired during its television programming. On a number of occasions between March 2007 through April 2008, Scotland directed that VRT Multimedia, Inc. be paid for advertising production work that was actually done by NYC-TV.
After VRT was paid for this work, the owner of VRT, Vincent R. Taylor issued checks drawn on a bank account in the name of VRT directly to Scotland or issued checks to make payments on two different credit cards in Scotland’s name. These payments to Scotland typically totaled approximately 80 percent of the money VRT had received from the advertisers. VRT kept the remainder of the money, typically approximately 20 percent of the money VRT had received from the advertisers, even though VRT had done none of the relevant production work.
The money Scotland and Taylor stole from NYC-TV from totaled more than $60,000, prosecutors said..
Scotland pleaded guilty to a one-count information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced on Jan. 26.
Taylor has been charged separately in a one-count indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Taylor’s next appearance in U.S. District Court is Nov. 2 10-29-09
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