Defendant’s House and Car Sold to Repay Fraud Victims
| U.S. Attorney’s Office July 13, 2011 |
CHARLENE PICKHINKE, 50 from Sac City, Iowa, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft and was sentenced on June 2, 2010, to 92 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a term of supervised release of three years. She was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $4,594,730.28.
Since sentencing, PICKHINKE’s house and car have been sold to repay a portion of the money she obtained through her fraud scheme. As a result, $48,041.22 was collected, bringing the total collected on behalf of the victims to $130,527.10.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Sean R. Berry. Assistant United States Attorneys Matthew J. Cole and Martin J. McLaughlin represented the United States in the collection of restitution.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR 09-4031-LRR.