Shawnee Mission Man Pleads Guilty To $6 Million Embezzlement

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Shawnee Mission man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges he embezzled more than $6 million from an Overland Park company, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

Kenneth Voboril, 46, Shawnee Mission, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return. In his plea, he admitted he was hired in 2005 by Commodity Specialists Company to run its subsidiary, TransMaxx. TransMaxx brokered trucking deliveries for customers and occasionally provided services to CSC.  

Voboril devised a scheme to defraud CSC by creating fake companies and billing CSC for deliveries that never occurred. He caused false truck load information to be entered into TransMaxx’s computer system, resulting in invoices being created by TransMaxx’s account software program.

Over the course of time, he embezzled more than $6 million from CSC. In addition, he failed to report the income on his federal tax returns.

Sentencing is set for Dec. 7. He faces maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $1 million on the wire fraud count, and a maximum penalty of three years and a fine up to $250,000 on the tax count. Grissom commended the Internal Revenue Service and Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Oakley for their work on the case.