GOSHEN – A Orange County Court judge Friday sentenced a 30-year-old Newburgh man to 3 1/3 to 10 years in state prison in connection with a wide-ranging fraud scheme that spanned from March 2021 through April 2022 and which resulted in a total loss of more than $250,000 to local businesses.
Turgaud Dubuisson was involved with other defendants who are expected to be sentenced later.
It is alleged that they engaged in a scheme of depositing altered and/or fraudulent checks belonging to Ironworkers Local 417, and other areas businesses, as well as individuals, into bank accounts and then withdraw cash from those bank accounts.
The total amount of forged and altered checks from Local 417 was over $190,000 and the total amount of checks deposited from all victims was in excess of $250,000.
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