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Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341, which provides:
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, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, 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.
Rhonda Jean Moulder, 62, of Cape Coral, Florida, knowingly conspired with others to devise a telemarketing scheme that victimized numerous individuals across the United States, many of whom are elderly and vulnerable. Rhonda Moulder worked as a manager for Florida-based companies involved in fraudulent magazine sales, including Gulf Coast Readers Inc., ARCO Media Inc., KMK Magazines Inc., and Leisure Time Resources Inc., collectively the “companies.” Her role as a manager was to manage telemarketing call centers and oversee the fraud on a day-to-day basis as well as respond to BBB complaints from victims.
According to her guilty plea and documents filed with the court, Rhonda Moulder operated under the direction of her co-defendant and brother, Anthony Eugene Moulder, 61, of Fort Myers, Florida, who had ultimate control over the companies. The companies operated multiple telemarketing call centers in Cape Coral, Florida. At the direction of Anthony Moulder, Rhonda Moulder, and other co-conspirators, call center employees made calls to elderly and vulnerable victim-consumers using deceptive sales scripts designed to induce them—through a series of lies and misrepresentations—into making large or repeat payments to the companies. In total, Rhonda Moulder and the companies she managed defrauded thousands of victims out of more than $86 million.
This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Additional assistance was provided by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph H. Thompson, Harry M. Jacobs, and Matthew S. Ebert are prosecuting the case.
Outcome: Defendant pleaded guilty to her role in a $300 million nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted elderly and vulnerable victims
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