In February, RAY pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of forging treasury checks. At that time, RAY admitted to cashing more than 120 forged United States Treasury Checks worth more than $400,000. The checks were stolen from the New York City Area as well as from other parts of the United States. Ray would get the stolen checks mailed to him via the United States Postal Service at his Brockport home.
During that investigation, federal agents identified at least 13 area bank accounts controlled by the defendant under various names. The defendant would take the stolen Treasury Checks he received by mail and then deposit them across these accounts. Many of the checks belonged to people who received Social Security payments, tax refunds, and other money drawn from the United States Treasury to help the intended recipients. As a result of the defendant’s scheme to defraud, Ray obtained more than $405,000 to which he was not otherwise entitled.
The conduct in the new indictment is alleged to have occurred while RAY was out of custody awaiting sentencing.
The indictment is the culmination of an investigation on the part of Inspectors from the United States Postal Inspection Service, under the direction of Shelly Binkowski, Inspector In Charge of the Boston Division, and Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, under the Direction of Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, Shantelle P. Kitchen.
The defendant was arraigned yesterday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson and was ordered held pending a detention hearing. The hearing is scheduled for Aug. 21, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson.
The fact that the defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
