A Lapeer, Michigan, man is in hot water after a federal grand jury indicted him on 29 counts for allegedly bilking a construction company out of nearly one cool million, authorities said. Jonathan McCormack, a 39-year-old project supervisor for BluRoc LLC, is now on the hook for 17 counts of wire fraud and 12 counts of monetary transactions with criminally derived property of a value greater than $10,000, following a two-year-long scheme, as announced by the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to the indictment, between January 2019 and January 2021 McCormack submitted falsified invoices from his own equipment rental company, JDM Site Services LLC, to BluRoc for equipment use that was pumped up or didn't happen, stealing labor, equipment, and materials originally meant for BluRoc's operations for his personal use, this included buying a high-end hunting lodge and making it fancy, fixing up his crib, buying snow beauties like snowmobiles, and paying off family debts.
Furthermore, McCormack improperly entered employee hours and equipment usage into BluRoc’s system, allegedly making BluRoc foot the bill for work done on his properties, such as turning timber mats purloined from BluRoc into a link between his and his uncle's properties, a press release by the United States Attorney’s Office stated, as per WWJ Newsradio.
As part of the indictment, prosecutors are eyeing a forfeiture of $920,716 in cash, a hunting lodge, and six Polaris recreational vehicles from McCormack; if convicted, he faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud charge and up to ten years for the charges related to monetary transactions officials from the FBI and IRS's criminal investigation unit in Boston, but until then, he remains under the shroud of 'presumed innocence unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.'
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