United States v. Mark Gleason

ORDER

Mark Gleason was working as a maintenance manager for United Parcel Service when he and Dayton Sloan, a construction contractor, conspired to defraud the company. Gleason solicited Sloan to purchase VISA gift cards (usually in amounts of $100, $200, or $500) and then submit invoices to UPS representing their value as construction work that Sloan had performed. (In fact Sloan had not performed that work.) Gleason would approve the invoices on UPS’s behalf and pocket the gift cards, and Sloan would receive a fee. Gleason pleaded guilty to mail fraud, see 18 U.S.C. § 1341, and money…