WASHINGTON -- A sentencing hearing is set for April 30 for a former produce buyer for Royal Farms, a New York-based retailer, who pleaded guilty last week to fraud and tax charges involving $250,000 in cash kickbacks from produce vendors from 1987 to mid-2000, the Department of Justice here said last week.
imum penalty of five years in jail, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine for one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud for receiving the kickbacks; plus a maximum penalty of three years in jail, one year of supervised release and a $250,000 fine for one count of filing false and fraudulent income tax returns between 1996 and 1999 that failed to report the kickbacks as income.
