Charges have been dropped by the prosecution and the Haynes brothers have been released without charge.
Robert Fisher
News Journal reported that Jason Haynes and his brother Kyle Haynes, sons of furniture business owner David Haynes, have been acquitted of stealing “hundreds of thousands of dollars from Xerox”, by selling printer toner without authorisation. The Recycler reported on the alleged scam in 2015, but investigators have since found that the brothers had in fact paid for the toner, and prosecutor from the Attorney General’s Office, Nick Cox, said “they were absolutely paying for every piece of toner they bought. Whatever they were billed by Xerox they paid for.”
Both brothers were also found to be paying state and federal taxes, with attorney Sam Masters, who represented David Haynes, saying: “The bottom line is that it became very evident during the investigation that no crime had been committed. We are just trying to right a wrong. I agree with the state-wide prosecutor that they paid for it and all I can tell you is that the documents and paperwork or the evidence that came to light during the discovery process confirmed that nothing they did was criminal.”
None of the Haynes were available for comment, but another man who was involved is still being charged. Robert Fisher, from Daytona Beach and on the Sex Offenders List, is charged with “racketeering and three counts of grand theft” amounting to more than $100,000 (€91,270). His attorney, Philip Bonamo, disputes claims that Fisher made $4 million (€3.6 million) and said that the charges against his client should also be dropped as “the case against him is similar” to that of the Haynes’.
Bonamo wrote in an email: “We in no way accept the number of $4 million as being accurate as to any alleged loss to Xerox Corporation, and the facts will show that Xerox actually made a profit during this time period.”
Cox declined to comment on the pending case ,and described Fisher as “an agent of Xerox”, which would make the case against him stronger: “He could be attributed more knowledge because of his role with the victim.”
Fisher’s connection to the Haynes bothers was through his company RBM Imaging of Daytona Beach, a member of Xerox’s North American Reseller Sales Programme which supplied the Haynes Furniture business with printers.