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Date: 02-03-2025
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United States of America v. Marc Weiss
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Court: The United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (Mecklenburg County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office in Charlotte
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Description: Charlotte, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Stealing More Than $1.6 Million From Two Small Businesses
Bookkeeper Sentenced To Prison For Stealing More Than $1.6 Million From Two Small Businesses
Marc Weiss, 50, of Charlotte, was indicted for embezzling approximately $1.6 million from two small businesses.
From 2016 to 2022, Weiss engaged in a scheme to defraud two Mooresville, N.C. small businesses that employed him as a bookkeeper. Over the course of the scheme, Weiss, who was a trusted employee, abused his position and access to the companies’ financial accounts to make more than 100 fraudulent transfers totaling $1.6 million from the companies’ accounts into bank accounts under Weiss’s control. Court documents show that Weiss began to embezzle from the second company while he was already stealing from the first one. To disguise the fraud, Weiss created fake entries in the victim companies’ books and records, categorizing the fraudulent transfers as payments to existing vendors for software development, and advertising and marketing expenses.
According to court records, Weiss used the embezzled funds, in part, to pay for his personal lifestyle, including rent payments for a luxury apartment uptown; payments for high-end vehicles, including an Audi and a Mercedes-Benz; purchases at luxury retail stores, including Luis Vuitton, Gucci, Neiman Marcus, and Tiffany, among others; and luxury vacations, including multiple stays in The Ritz Carlton hotel.
In October 2023, Weiss pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He will be ordered to report to the Federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility.
In making today’s announcement, U.S. Attorney King thanked the U.S. Secret Service and the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office for their investigation of the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Bozin of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte prosecuted the case.
Outcome:
Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 40 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Weiss was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,644,235.77.
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