Donations from property developers - banned in NSW since 2009 - were allegedly paid as sham invoices to Eightbyfive, before being passed as cash to Liberal candidates.
Prosecutors said that the company, the RW Professional Leasing Corporation, concocted elaborate schemes using up to 100 rented mailboxes as far away as California to send phony checks, sham invoices, bogus leases and other false documents to banks in various states.
In a separate case, Mr. Hotton was also charged by federal prosecutors on Long Island with securing $3.7 million by creating sham invoices and selling that debt at a discount to unsuspecting companies.
Sharing liability along with Mr. Custer, Mr. Battles and their company are Joseph Morris, a former executive, and several other companies that Mr. Custer and Mr. Battles incorporated to mask as suppliers and provide sham invoices.
In a separate case also unveiled Monday, federal prosecutors on Long Island charged that Mr. Hotton and several accomplices, including his wife, Sherri, had secured $3.7 million by creating sham invoices for companies they controlled and selling that debt at a discount to unsuspecting companies.
Authorities say Brumfield's enterprise sent sham invoices (for as much as $600) stamped "PAST DUE".
The fact that the payments were reimbursed eventually through "sham invoices" to the Trump organization is legally irrelevant.
The indictment alleges that Minkow masterminded an intricate scheme that used phony businesses, sham invoices and other ruses to secure millions of dollars from stock sales and bank loans by convincing lawyers, accountants and investors that vastly inflated revenues claimed for ZZZZ Best were bona fide.
To do so, prosecutors said the company relied on Cohen's "sham" monthly invoices, according to legal filings in Cohen's case.
To justify the payment of rebates, the defendants presented the Argentine government with fraudulent bank documents and customs documents, as well as invoices from sham purchases.
The indictment today says Mr. Fajardo recruited others, including his sister-in-law, to set up two companies as fronts to hide federal money diverted from his department through contracts awarded to the bogus corporations and by the extortion of contractors, who would pay false invoices to the sham companies.
