Man Indicted on Mail and Wire Fraud Charges
| U.S. Attorney’s Office January 12, 2011 |
BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a 10-count Indictment charging Daryl J. Chase, 42 of Buffalo, NY, with mail and wire fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward H. White, who is handling the case, stated that Chase is charged with operating a fraudulent vending machine sales business under five different names. The Indictment alleges that Chase advertised vending machine equipment for sale on the Internet prompting six individuals to pay him a total of $19,338 for the purported purchase of the equipment. After receiving the payments, the defendant neither delivered the vending machines nor refunded the payments to the buyers.
The Indictment is the culmination of an investigation on the part of special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direction of James H. Robertson, Special Agent in Charge.
The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.