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fictitious entities and deposited into five different bank
accounts.
Mr. Fisher began contemplating his scheme well before the
first diversion. Mr. Fisher began taking action on his plan as
early as April 17, 1991, when he leased P.O. Box 3794 in Leon
County, Florida. This post office box was listed as the mailing
address for several of his fictitious entities and was the
address to which many of the diverted commissions were mailed.
On March 17, 1993, Mr. Fisher was found guilty by a jury in
Leon County, Florida, of grand theft and official misconduct in
connection with the diversion of the telephone commissions. Mr.
Fisher was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 4 years and
ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $288,312.3
Mr. Fisher was also indicted on Federal charges based on his
diversion of telephone commissions. In consideration of being
allowed to plead guilty to one count of this Federal indictment,
Mr. Fisher agreed to forfeit to the United States all rights,
title, and interest in a 0.92-acre parcel of land and a 0.25-acre
parcel of land. In order to accomplish this, Mr. Fisher secured
the signatures of petitioners on a quitclaim deed dated May 9,
1994, which describes these two parcels. Mr. Fisher was then
3The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was able to
recover only $30,000 out of the approximately $300,000 diverted
by Mr. Fisher.
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