Hartford Man Admits Role in Bank Fraud Scheme
| U.S. Attorney’s Office September 28, 2009 |
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYLON MIMS, 35, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to two counts of bank fraud.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in April 2007, MIMS’ co-defendant Patricia May, at MIMS’ direction, registered with the City of Hartford a business in the name of “Health New England Services.” The real Health New England, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, did not give May permission to use its name or to open any account in its name. Shortly thereafter, a second co-defendant, Miosotis Garcia, also at MIMS’ direction, registered a business with the City of Hartford in the name of “Health New England Gym.” Garcia then opened a business checking account at a branch of Bank of America in Hartford in the name of “Health New England Gym,” and May opened a business checking account at a branch of New Alliance Bank in Hartford under the name “Health New England Services.”
On April 13, 2007, Garcia, at MIMS’ direction, deposited a stolen check in the amount of $156,601.96, payable to “Health New England,” into the business checking account at Bank of America. On April 19, 2007, MIMS and Garcia withdrew $60,000 in cash and $96,620.96 in cashiers’ checks from the account before the bank realized the check was stolen.
On April 27, 2007, Patricia May, at MIMS’s direction, deposited a stolen check in the amount of $116,349.89, payable to “Health New England,” into the fraudulent checking account at New Alliance Bank. May subsequently was able to withdraw $22,000 in cash from the account before the bank realized the fraud and froze the account.
Judge Arterton has scheduled sentencing for December 8, 2009, at which time MIMS faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years and a fine of up to $1 million, on each count.
MIMS has been detained since his arrest on April 21, 2009
May and Garcia have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from this scheme. Each awaits sentencing.
This matter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney James G. Genco.