Brooklyn, NY man gets jail time and fine for $510,000 worth of illegal fluke
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Courthouse News Service] By Nick Divito - October 24, 2014 -
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., A Brooklyn man who schemed with a commercial fisherman to underreport their overtake of summer flounder was sentenced to four months for wire fraud by sidestepping a federal research program.
Alan Dresner pleaded guilty in April to one count of wire fraud. He defrauded the United States of 246,376 pounds of overharvested and underreported fluke, valued at $510,000.
Dresner personally falsified reports on his Internet submissions for at least 120 fisheries' dealer reports from 2009 to 2012, the Department of Justice said...
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