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Date: 07-08-2022
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United States of America v. William Sacco
Case Number: 3:22-cr-00027-KAD
Judge: Kari A. Dooley
Court: United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (New Haven County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: New Haven, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged for his involvement in a construction fraud scheme.
William Sacco, age 49, of Pelham, New Hamphsire, was a project manager for a Massachusetts-based mechanical contractor. From June 2014 to December 2017, Sacco conspired to defraud his employer and the owners of certain projects he managed by inflating change orders on the projects. As part of the conspiracy, a co-conspirator subcontractor, who owned an insulation company, made more than $200,000 in payments to Sacco and also for Sacco’s benefit, including payments for Sacco’s children’s college tuition, a graduation party, a Mac laptop, airline tickets, hotels and Sacco’s rent. Sacco and the co-conspirator submitted inflated change orders to Sacco’s former employer to offset some of the costs of the payments the co-conspirator made to Sacco.
Sacco was arrested on November 22, 2021. On February 14, 2022, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Judge Dooley ordered Sacco to pay restitution of $41,195.85, which was paid in full prior to the sentencing.
Sacco, who is released on a $50,000 bond, is required to report to prison on September 6.
This investigation has been conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David T. Huang, with assistance from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, New York Office.
ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MAIL FRAUD Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud
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Outcome: Defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total of 3 months; supervised release with conditions for a total term of 3 years with Home detention for the first five months of supervised release. Special assessment of $100.00; Restitution of $41,195.85 has been paid. The defendant shall self-surrender directly to the facility designated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons no later than September 6, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. under his own power and at his own expense. In the event the defendant does not receive designation by the Bureau of Prisons prior to the surrender date, the defendant must self-surrender to the United States Marshals Service by September 6, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
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