A husband and wife from North Carolina are under arrest for allegedly running a scam that stole more than $23 million from Cisco Systems.
According to federal prosecutors in North Carolina, 33-year-old Mario Easevoli and his wife, Jennifer Easevoli, 28, were arrested in Tucson, Ariz., on 28 Sept. after an investigation that included the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and the Postal Inspection Service.
A third person, Jason Allan Conway, 33, also was indicted, but has not yet been arrested, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina
According to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on 13 Oct, Mario Easevoli set up a company called Synergy Communications, with him as president and his wife as vice president. Conway was an employee.
Between January 2003 and July 2005, the Easevolis and Conway submitted claims to Cisco’s SMARTnet service, which offers users a quick turnaround on advance replacement parts, without the users being asked to return the failed part first.
The three then sold the replacement parts on what investigators called “the grey market” and deposited the payments into a Synergy bank account.
As part of the fraud, the three created more than 21 fictitious company names and 80 false personal names, and used private mailboxes at UPS stores throughout eight states as mailing addresses for receiving the parts and payments.
A federal grand jury returned indictments against the Easevolis and Conway on 9 Sept, and unsealed the indictments on 23 Sept. The three were charged with conspiring to commit mail fraud, aiding and abetting mail fraud, and conspiring to commit money laundering.
The maximum penalty for each charge is up to 20 years in prison and up to a $500,000 fine.
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