{"id":1147,"date":"2014-02-24T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2014-02-24T20:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:32:17","slug":"fuel-aviation-employee-destroyed-evidence-pleads-guilty-obstruction-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Aviation Fuel Employee Who Destroyed Evidence Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KANSAS, CITY<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0A former employee of a Florida-based airline fuel supply service company, who destroyed files relevant \u00a0to an investigation into\u00a0fraud and anticompetitive conduct in the airline charter services industry, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Perez, a former employee of Aviation Fuel International Inc., pleaded guilty to the felony charge Monday in U.S. District Court to destroying the files in his laptop computer, federal officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Antitrust Division will hold accountable those who attempt to conceal their illegal actions and obstruct a government investigation ,\u201d said Bill Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice\u2019s Antitrust Division. \u201cDestroying evidence in an attempt to undermine a federal investigation is a crime the division takes very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perez&#8217;s plea is the fifth arising from the investigation, said federal officials. The\u00a0other four individuals have been ordered to serve sentences ranging from 16 to 87 months.<\/p>\n<p>Perez&#8217;s charge stem from an investigation into kickbacks made by Aviation Fuel and its employees to Wayne Kepple, the former vice president of ground operations for Ryan International Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>According to court document, Perez worked for Aviation Fuel from June 2007 until March 2008 and was vice president of services. During that time, Kepple received kickback payments from Aviation Fuel on aviation fuel, services and equipment sold by Aviation Fuel to Ryan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">A sixth person, Sean Wagner, the owner and operator of Aviation Fuel, and Aviation Fuel itself were indicted on Aug. 13.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS, CITY &#8211; \u00a0A former employee of a Florida-based airline fuel supply service company, who destroyed files relevant \u00a0to an investigation into\u00a0fraud and anticompetitive conduct in the airline charter services industry, pleaded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aviation Fuel Employee Who Destroyed Evidence Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KANSAS, CITY - \u00a0A former employee of a Florida-based airline fuel supply service company, who destroyed files relevant \u00a0to an investigation into\u00a0fraud and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=1147\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aviation Fuel Employee Who Destroyed Evidence Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KANSAS, CITY - \u00a0A former employee of a Florida-based airline fuel supply service company, who destroyed files relevant \u00a0to an investigation into\u00a0fraud and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=1147\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"American Justice Notebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-25T04:26:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-02-25T04:32:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=1147#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=1147\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Raul\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0\"},\"headline\":\"Aviation Fuel Employee Who Destroyed Evidence Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-25T04:26:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-02-25T04:32:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=1147\"},\"wordCount\":258,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"American Justice\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=1147#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=1147\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=1147\",\"name\":\"Aviation Fuel Employee Who Destroyed Evidence Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-25T04:26:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-02-25T04:32:17+00:00\",\"description\":\"KANSAS, CITY - \u00a0A former employee of a Florida-based airline fuel supply service company, who destroyed files relevant \u00a0to an investigation into\u00a0fraud and\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=1147\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"American Justice Notebook\",\"description\":\"&quot;Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.&quot; 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