Toner fraudster pressured client to become ghost company

Nov 13, 2015

Robert Fisher

Robert Lee Fisher

An authorised Xerox reseller wanted for using two ghost companies to cost the OEM a retail loss of $24 million (€22.3 million) allegedly put pressure on a customer to give him the name of a closed business so he could order more product.

The Daytona Beach News Journal reported how Robert Lee Fisher, owner of reseller RBM Imaging, called and pressured Mary Racila, owner of Ponce Inlet Printing, to provide a company name, leading to her giving the name of her dead relatives’ electric company that was no longer in business, state officials have said.

Fisher, who is also alleged to be a sexual predator, called the police on Racila in May 2010 after a high volume of toner was delivered to her business, but Racila remained unaware of the police report, investigators said.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office report detailed Fisher as having said that Racila had ordered $400,000 (€373,000) in ink and toner, from which he had recovered $60,000 (€55,900). He gave no explanation as to where the rest had gone and decided not to pursue criminal charge, with the case subsequently closed.

Racila’s account was that Fisher’s employees had randomly come to her business and taken the supplies. The report said that in 2010 Fisher took 100 boxes of ink and toner cartridge from Ponce Inlet Printing.

The Recycler reported on the recent arrest of four accomplices of Fisher, Bryan Arthur Day, Jason David Haynes, Kyle Laing Haynes and David Charles Haynes, all of whom handed themselves in to polie. The men were apparently black-marketing “thousands of Xerox’ ink and toner cartridges”.

Fisher made $4 million (€3.7 million) from the fraud, while the Haynes and Day each received $800,000 (€746,000) from the business.

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