Feb. 15--A Williamsville man who admitted he used his lifeless brother to defraud a commerce union of employee advantages was sentenced Thursday in federal courtroom to serve two years of probation -- together with six months of detention -- and ordered to carry out 100 hours of group service, in accordance with the U.S. Legal professional's Workplace.
Prosecutors mentioned 61-year-old Timothy McCluskey, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, conspired with one other particular person between Nov. 21, 2014, and January 2015 to defraud the Worldwide Union of Painters & Allied Trades.
In response to the U.S. Legal professional's Workplace, McCluskey filed a back-dated utility in December 2014 to have his deceased brother reinstated into the union. In January 2015, McCluskey filed a loss of life profit declare in his brother's title with the union.
Consequently, the union issued life insurance coverage proceeds to McCluskey within the quantity of $2,500, prosecutors mentioned.
As well as, the U.S. Legal professional's Workplace mentioned, between December 2014 and February 2015, McCluskey engaged in a scheme to defraud the Hartford Insurance coverage Co. by falsely claiming to the Worldwide Union of Painters & Allied Trades that his lifeless brother had labored greater than 500 hours at McCluskey's portray firm, E&M Star Portray, through the first 4 months of 2014, which might have made his brother eligible for a $50,000 life insurance coverage coverage.
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