Criminal Fraud Cases

The defendants allegedly conspired to unlawfully enrich themselves by falsely representing Ruiz as a third-party subcontractor assisting business operations in Mexico for an American defense, aviation, information technology, and biomedical research company (Company 1).  Walther-Meade was allegedly an employee and executive of Company 1 and, together with Ruiz, caused false invoices to be submitted for work that was never performed in order to induce Company 1 to make payments to Ruiz.  Walther-Meade and Ruiz then allegedly used those funds fraudulent obtained from Company 1 for their own personal use and benefit.