{"id":1361,"date":"2022-06-28T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T06:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2022-06-28T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T06:59:03","slug":"el-dorado-county-salesman-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-employer-in-billing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/06\/28\/el-dorado-county-salesman-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-employer-in-billing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"El Dorado County Salesman Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Employer In Billing Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>LUCY HODGMAN, SacBee<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) June 28, 2022 \u2014 A former resident of Placerville who pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud now faces the as many as 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Scott Davis, 64, pleaded guilty to mail fraud on June 13, admitting to a false billing scheme intended to defraud his former employer, according to a Monday news release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>David previously served as the national sales manager of National Food Products, a company that sells food products to retailers and distributors. Between 2009 and 2012, Davis worked to defraud the company with his co-defendant, Glen Martinka, 72, of Phoenix, who managed a brokerage firm that sold the company\u2019s products, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>During this three-year period, Davis approved false invoices on the brokerage firm\u2019s letterhead, charging National Food Products for fees the brokerage firm was not entitled to receive, according to the release. Davis would then direct his company\u2019s staff to send payments not to the brokerage firm\u2019s headquarters, but to an address in Arizona controlled by Martinka.<\/p>\n<p>Martinka and Davis would split the money fraudulently obtained in the process, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Davis is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis worked to defraud National Food Products with his co-defendant, Glen Martinka, 72, of Phoenix.  Martinka and Davis would the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}