Date: 02-16-2021

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Case Number: :19-cr-00020-SPB

Judge: Susan Paradise Baxter

Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (Erie County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office

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Description: Erie, PA - bank and wire fraud criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant, Chad Bednarski, age 49, who was charged with bank and wire fraud conspiracy.

According to information presented to the court, Chad Bednarski, as the finance manager of Lakeside Chevrolet, engaged in the following illegal activity between January 2015 and January 2019 that caused a financial loss of more than $1.5 million:

Bednarski falsely reported vehicle sales to General Motors for vehicles that had not been sold in order to obtain expiring incentive rebates, and;

Bednarski deliberately did not inform S&T Bank when Lakeside Chevrolet sold a vehicle that the dealership had purchased utilizing S&T Bank’s floor plan financing in order to delay and attempt to avoid the dealerships’ required payment to S&T Bank for the sold vehicles which had been purchased using S&T Bank’s floor plan financing.

Assistant United States Attorney Christian A. Trabold prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.

United States Attorney Brady commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania State Police for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Bednarski.

18 USC 1349 MAIL FRAUD

Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 32 months in jail, ordered to pay over $1.6 million in restitution and a $1,000 fine.

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