CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office is revealing new information about a fraud scheme for which 20 people were indicted in late September.
Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor Andy Berghausen says the defendants first got ahold of a local restaurant’s bank account number, then passed fake checks that were made to look like payroll checks.
“Once they got ahold of the checking account numbers, they were able to use those numbers and make their own checks,” Berghausen explained Friday.
The scheme resulted in a loss of $15,000, Berghausen says. The bank took on that loss rather than the restaurant, Pies and Pint