Donald Dodson (Credit: The Times Tribune)
Donald Dodson defrauded a car dealership of nearly $300,000.
The Times Tribune reported on Donald Dodson’s guilty plea for forgery in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, where he had worked for a car dealership at which he had defrauded around $300,000 (€220,554) between February and June 2010, including writing forged cheques for toner cartridges.
Dodson had faced 104 charges of forgery, with all but one now dropped, with around a third of the forged cheques made payable to American Digital Solutions, based in Receda, California, whose invoices showed that Gateway Ford, the dealership Dodson worked at, was “ordering roughly 24 toner cartridges a month”, despite using only 10 in a year.
Dodson faces a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $15,000 (€11,027) fine, with “full restitution” required to be paid to Paul and Doug Thomas, the car dealership’s owners. Despite pleading guilty, Dodson gave “no explanation […] as to how [he] may have benefited from the forgeries”.