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Fairfax County man accused of check fraud
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Date: March 29, 2012 06:35AM
Fairfax County man accused of check fraud
http://www.fairfaxcountycriminallawblog.com/2012/03/fairfax-county-man-accused-of-check-fraud.shtml
On behalf of Karen Scarborough, Attorney at Law posted in Criminal Defense on Friday, March 23, 2012
A man who worked as an administrator in a Fairfax County law firm has allegedly been involved in crimes related to check forgery. Authorities say he apparently cashed a forged check in Atlantic City then left the country. According to a search warrant, the 36-year-old man deposited two checks at a TD Bank on Jan. 20. The checks were drawn on an account for the American Iranian Kurdish Community, Inc. The man is the owner of the company, according to state records. The company supposedly had only $100 in the bank at the time the man deposited the checks.
The next day, the man allegedly went back to the same bank and withdrew cash and got a cashier's check for $250. The man is accused of digitally altering the check, changing the amount to $250,000. He later cashed the $250,000 cashier's check at an Atlantic City casino. According to police, the man, his son and his wife left the country. Police did not say where the family went, other than to say it was to a different country. The man allegedly had foreign passports with fictitious names and dates of birth for himself and his family.
On Feb. 7, police got a search warrant on the man's Porsche SUV and his home in Vienna, Virginia. Police took two computers, a filing cabinet and several guns. The man worked at the Fairfax County law firm for about a year. He helped the firm with immigration cases, according to an attorney at the firm. The firm's biography of the man said he was a Kurdish Iranian-American who immigrated to the United States in his teens. The firm's spokesperson said the man worked hard and that there had been no indication that he was in trouble.
http://www.fairfaxcountycriminallawblog.com/2012/03/fairfax-county-man-accused-of-check-fraud.shtml
On behalf of Karen Scarborough, Attorney at Law posted in Criminal Defense on Friday, March 23, 2012
A man who worked as an administrator in a Fairfax County law firm has allegedly been involved in crimes related to check forgery. Authorities say he apparently cashed a forged check in Atlantic City then left the country. According to a search warrant, the 36-year-old man deposited two checks at a TD Bank on Jan. 20. The checks were drawn on an account for the American Iranian Kurdish Community, Inc. The man is the owner of the company, according to state records. The company supposedly had only $100 in the bank at the time the man deposited the checks.
The next day, the man allegedly went back to the same bank and withdrew cash and got a cashier's check for $250. The man is accused of digitally altering the check, changing the amount to $250,000. He later cashed the $250,000 cashier's check at an Atlantic City casino. According to police, the man, his son and his wife left the country. Police did not say where the family went, other than to say it was to a different country. The man allegedly had foreign passports with fictitious names and dates of birth for himself and his family.
On Feb. 7, police got a search warrant on the man's Porsche SUV and his home in Vienna, Virginia. Police took two computers, a filing cabinet and several guns. The man worked at the Fairfax County law firm for about a year. He helped the firm with immigration cases, according to an attorney at the firm. The firm's biography of the man said he was a Kurdish Iranian-American who immigrated to the United States in his teens. The firm's spokesperson said the man worked hard and that there had been no indication that he was in trouble.