United States v. Forchette

MEMORANDUM

ADELMAN, District Judge.

I. FACTS AND BACKGROUND

On February 12, 2002, a federal grand jury indicted Bruce Bennett, the claims manager of ATC Leasing (“ATC”), a Ke-nosha, Wisconsin trucking company, and defendant John Forchette. The indictment alleged that Bennett defrauded ATC out of about $750,000 by creating phony accident claims and pocketing the proceeds, and that Forchette participated in the scheme by recruiting individuals to cash fraudulent checks generated by Bennett and by forging the signature of payees and negotiating checks himself.

Bennett pled guilty, but Forchette…