{"id":17111,"date":"2017-02-02T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=17111"},"modified":"2017-02-02T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:18:45","slug":"salesman-sold-fraudulent-vending-machines-sentenced-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=17111","title":{"rendered":"Salesman Who Sold Fraudulent Vending Machines Sentenced to Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Eastern-District-of-New-York.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17116 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Eastern-District-of-New-York.gif\" alt=\"Eastern District of New York\" width=\"280\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>A federal judge sentenced a Long Island, New York sales representative to prison for fraudulently selling vending machine businesses, the Department of Justice announced Thurday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Richard R. Goldberg, 44, of Holbrook, New York, was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $546,487 as restitution.Goldberg was found guilty after a six-week trial in 2015 of wire fraud and conspiracy. He is one of 24 defendants who<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Goldberg was found guilty after a six-week trial in 2015 of wire fraud and conspiracy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Goldberg was found guilty after a six-week trial in 2015 of wire fraud and conspiracy. He is one of 24 defendants who have been convicted of fraud in\u00a0connection with Multivend LLC d\/b\/a\/ Vendstar, which was based in Deer Park, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe defendant enticed people to pay $10,000 or more for a business that he promised would be prosperous, when he knew it was likely to fail,\u201d said Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler, head of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division. \u201cThat is a serious and reprehensible crime. The Department of Justice is committed to protecting consumers by prosecuting such frauds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The vending machines generated little business and Vendstar\u2019s customers lost all or nearly all of their investments. \u00a0The typical customer paid about $10,000 for the business opportunity, officials indicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The evidence at trial indicated the following:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Managers, sales representatives and operators of \u201clocating companies\u201d associated with <strong>Multivend LLC, d\/b\/a Vendstar,<\/strong> made material misrepresentations about the profits customers would make from bulk candy vending machines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During the telemarketing calls, Vendstar\u2019s sales representatives falsely claimed to operate their own profitable vending machine businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vendstar advertised nationwide in newspapers and on the Internet. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vendstar sales representatives promised to provide consumers with everything they needed to make the business work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The locating companies who worked with Vendstar to close deals had no special skills, tools or expertise in finding locations and generally placed consumers\u2019 machines wherever they could as quickly as they could, often in businesses that had not consented to housing the machines and that soon demanded that the machines be removed. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK A federal judge sentenced a Long Island, New York sales representative to prison for fraudulently selling vending machine businesses, the Department of Justice announced Thurday. 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