Monday, December 8, 2008

Rhode Island Travel Agent Sentenced For Defrauding Amtrak & Airlines

Frank Serio, the owner of Travel Concepts, Inc. in Rhode Island, was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for defrauding eight airlines and Amtrak out of $571,000 in a bogus ticket refund scheme. Serio pleaded guilty to wire fraud in August and is due to report to prison on January 5th, 2009.

Read the story here and here.

Read the DOJ press release here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think these people should be treated like this. It would just set an instance for others. FBI's effort is appreciated.