Orleans Parish Man Sentenced for Wire Fraud

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JASON PICK (“PICK), age 44, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on December 17, 2025 by United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 37 months in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. The defendant was also ordered to pay $64,137 to his victim.

According to court documents, from June 2020 through October 25, 2021, PICK worked as an accounting clerk for a company that manages residential and commercial real estate in the New Orleans area. During his employment, PICK stole approximately $64,137 from the company by altering the face of money orders intended to be rent payments from tenants and deposited the altered money orders into his own bank account. While awaiting sentencing for a scheme to defraud his previous employer, PICK submitted a fraudulent letter from the company to a federal judge, requesting that his prison report date be delayed because it was a busy period for the company. In truth and in fact, the letter was forged by PICK, and the owner of the company was unaware of the letter, or PICK’s crimes. The Court granted the defendant’s request, and PICK used this delay to further conceal his crimes. Before reporting to serve his prison sentence, PICK lied to the company about his upcoming absence by stating that he needed to undergo immediate emergency kidney surgery. He advised the company he would be able to complete his duties on a remote basis during this time. On his way to prison, PICK remotely accessed the company’s computer system and fraudulently edited the accounting books to conceal the money he had stolen.

Acting U.S. Attorney Simpson praised the work of the United States Secret Service in investigating the matter. Assistant United States Attorney G. Dall Kammer, Chief of the General Crimes Unit, was in charge of the prosecution.