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Ohio man pleads guilty to tax charges and defrauding a Jefferson, Iowa hospital

March 03, 2010

Robert Alick apparently managed to rip off both the IRS and the Greene County Medical Center at the same time. The Chagrin Falls, Ohio resident pleaded guilty to five charges yesterday. From a Department of Justice press release:

According to the indictment and the plea agreement, Alick operated his used medical equipment sales business in Beachwood, Ohio, through the following entities: Healthcare Imaging Solutions Corporation, ECT Medical Systems Inc., ECT Corporation, Second Source Medical Equipment Corporation and Computer Remarketing Credit Corporation d/b/a DECT Imaging. Alick also admitted that he used this series of corporations both as part of his fraudulent scheme (described below) and to avoid paying taxes.
According to the indictment and the plea agreement, Alick admitted that in connection to the mail and wire fraud counts, from July 2002 through April 2006, he engaged in a scheme to defraud the hospitals that were his customers through various means, including by taking substantial deposits that were supposed to be used to purchase medical equipment and failing to use such funds for the purchase of the equipment and failing to deliver the equipment, instead using the money on other things. Alick further admitted that he defrauded the following six hospitals: Toledo Hospital (Toledo, Ohio), Greene County Medical Center (Jefferson, Iowa), Canyon Surgery Center (Phoenix), North Suburban Surgery Center (Thorton, Colo.), Clarion Hospital (Clarion, Penn.) and Hugh Chatham Hospital (Elkin, N.C.).

He didn't cut the IRS in on the action, so he committed tax crimes in addition to the garden-variety theft. He also failed to remit employment taxes. Sentencing is scheduled for June.

Tags: Jefferson Iowa.tax crime.