FRESNO, CA—United States Attorney
Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Mark George Jankowski, 51, of Turlock,
pleaded guilty today to six counts of mail fraud for embezzling from his former
employer Ruiz Foods.
According to court documents, from
December 2004 to July 2010, Jankowski, as marketing director of Ruiz Foods,
embezzled approximately $448,366 from Ruiz Foods. He did this by creating
invoices from false sales and marketing vendors billing Ruiz for supposed
services performed. Jankowski then authorized the payment to these false
vendors. The checks were either mailed to the vendors to addresses provided by
Jankowski or were hand-delivered to him.
This case is the product of an
investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney
Stanley A. Boone is prosecuting the case.
Jankowski is scheduled to be sentenced
on August 6, 2012 by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill.
Jankowski faces a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,00
fine. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the
court after consideration of any applicable statutory sentencing factors and
the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of
variables.
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