West Virginia Delivery Driver Sentenced to 2 Years and 6 Months for $510,465 Fuel Card Fraud
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Jeffrey Jeffers, 35, of Williamstown, West Virginia, was sentenced on November 9 to two years and six months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $510,465.19 in restitution for wire fraud. Jeffers admitted to stealing $510,465.19 from his employer through false charges to company-issued credit cards.
According to court documents and statements made in court, between November 2022 and July 2024, Jeffers delivered products by truck for a large provider of industrial gas from its distribution facility in Wood County. The delivery trucks were fueled at the distribution facility and were also equipped with fuel credit cards. As part of his guilty plea, Jeffers admitted that he opened online payment platform accounts in the names of fictitious service stations he created, and fraudulently charged more than 900 phantom fuel purchases to his employer's fuel credit cards, payable to his fake service station accounts. He admitted that his delivery routes normally never required any refueling outside of the distribution facility.
United States Attorney Moore Capito made the announcement and commended the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin imposed the sentence, and Assistant United States Attorney Gabriel Price prosecuted the case. Court documents are available on PACER under Case No. 2:26-cr-85.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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