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Description: Syracuse, New York criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and filing false tax returns.

Glen Zinszer, age 52, of Liverpool, New York, admitted that he began operating the Brazzlebox company in 2012, which he represented to investors would be like Facebook for business. Beginning in April 2013 and continuing until approximately the summer of 2016, Zinszer made false representations to investors about how Brazzlebox was doing to cause them to invest more money and stay invested. For example, Zinszer inflated Brazzlebox’s user numbers and told employees to create fake user accounts to inflate those numbers, misrepresented purportedly revenue-generating strategic partnerships, forged documents to effectuate those falsehoods, and forged a letter of intent to purchase Brazzlebox for millions of dollars.

From 2012 through 2016, Zinszer used a substantial portion of the money invested in Brazzlebox to finance his lifestyle rather than to operate the business, including paying mortgages on his homes and purchasing concert tickets and jewelry. Although Zinszer used money from Brazzlebox to finance his lifestyle, he willfully filed false tax returns underreporting his income in tax years 2013-2016.

Senior United States District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. also imposed a 3 year term of supervised release, which will start after Zinszer is released from prison, and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $3,049,933 to his victims including the government, forfeiture in the amount of $2,763,811, and a $200 special assessment.

Zinszer’s case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Michael D. Gadarian and Geoffrey J.L. Brown.

18:1343.F FRAUD BY WIRE, RADIO, OR TELEVISION

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.

Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 51 months' in prison.

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