The facts are a bit clearer. It wasn't an employee who made the fake cheque but rather one of the two brothers that owned G&G. So brother Frank writes a $51.00 cheque to brother Gino, which Gino "kept" and then "used it to create a phony cheque" for $143,800.00 (which I infer to mean the real cheque was never cashed). So Gino then gives this fake cheque to PV which he deposits.
Now it gets interesting. Did PV really have equipment to sell? Well, he apparently never authorized Cameila to pay off anyone for this machinery or else there would be a record of it, so apparently he didn't have it on consignment or via making a down payment. So either PV bought this expensive piece with cash (doubtful given what we know about his finances), owned it himself (again doubtful given his employment), stole it, or there was no equipment ever.
For Gino to have taken this extraordinary risk, one would assume the motive was either for money directly from PV or for re-selling or owning/using the equipment. There is no way in heck Gino could have kept this fraud from his brother. Considering he made a fake cheque, he can't claim he himself was fooled by PV into giving him a real cheque for nonexistent equipment.
Gino must have known there were funds in the G&G account to make the cheque good. So if he had wanted to truly defraud his brother for quick cash he could have written the cheque to himself. But he didn't. So the logical conclusion is that there really was equipment and that the price he paid for it was a bargain. So even when his brother found out about the "indiscretion", at least there would be collateral to own or sell.
As luck would have it, the bank blamed Cameila, the attorney, for the fraud. This, to me, makes absolutely no sense other than perhaps G&G was a big account they didn't want to lose. No charges were apparently brought against Gino by Frank either. No harm no foul? Right now, we apparently have a perfect crime.
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Apparently, Gino Guglielmello had kept a cheque which Frank had written to him in the amount of $51.00, and used it to create a phony cheque, which Gino gave to Mr. Vucicevich as payment for the machine.
- Jeff |
