Kernersville Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Bank Fraud

GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Kernersville man was recently sentenced to 70 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to bank fraud, announced Sandra J. Hairston, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.

Kevin Lee MYERS, Jr., 33, of Kernersville, North Carolina, was sentenced on December 4, 2017, by the Honorable Loretta C. Biggs, United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina. MYERS pleaded guilty in March 2017 to two counts of bank fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344(2). One count to which MYERS pleaded guilty alleged he misrepresented himself to Ally Bank as an agent of Myers Enterprises, Inc., a corporation to which he in fact had no relationship, in an application for credit in order to purchase a Dodge Ram Truck valued at over $45,000. The other count to which MYERS pleaded guilty alleged he misrepresented himself to the First National Bank of Omaha using the information of another person in order to acquire services valued at $46,256.30.

In addition to a 70-month term of imprisonment, Judge Biggs sentenced MYERS to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay over $150,000 in restitution.

The United States Department of Treasury Office of Inspector General Financial Crimes Task Force, the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, the Durham Police Department, and the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office participated in the investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Anand Ramaswamy prosecuted the case.

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