斯托克顿兄弟被起诉 涉以伪造发票骗取逾180万美元
2025年6月20日，美国司法部宣布，联邦大陪审团已起诉住在加利福尼亚州圣华金县 Stockton 市的兄弟 Hector Perez 与 Flavio Perez，指控两人以伪造发票向发票保理公司行骗，涉案损失逾180万美元。代理联邦检察官 Michele Beckwith 公布了起诉内容，两人已于6月17日被捕。
Hector Perez 现年34岁，Flavio Perez 现年29岁。起诉书共八项罪名：两人同被控共谋电汇诈骗，Hector Perez 另被控电汇诈骗与加重身份盗窃。
检方说，2018年5月至2020年11月，两人设立多家公司实体，冒充要出售债务的企业，把伪造的发票当作债务卖给至少四家发票保理公司。发票保理是一种金融服务：保理公司买下企业的未结发票、向企业提供即时现金流，其后有权向欠款人收款。受害公司把钱打入由一人或两人控制的银行账户后，要么收不回买下的假发票款项，要么只收到远少于应得的数额。
检方还说，偶有收到的付款多来自以虚构债务人名义开立的账户，这类付款意在掩盖诈骗、让两人避开察觉并继续行骗。按起诉书，2018年5月至2020年9月，受害公司的整体损失逾180万美元。
此案由联邦调查局调查，助理联邦检察官 Denise N. Yasinow 与 Matthew Thuesen 承办。如罪名成立，Hector Perez 就电汇诈骗与共谋罪名最高可判20年监禁与25万美元罚款，加重身份盗窃罪名另须连续执行两年强制刑期；Flavio Perez 就共谋罪名最高可判20年监禁与25万美元罚款。实际刑期由法院在考虑联邦量刑指南等因素后裁量。起诉书所载仅为指控，两人在被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
（来源：美国司法部）
Stockton Brothers Indicted for Wire Fraud Conspiracy Over Fake Invoices
On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury had indicted brothers Hector Perez and Flavio Perez, of Stockton, in San Joaquin County, California, accusing them of defrauding invoice factoring companies with fabricated invoices and causing more than $1.8 million in losses. Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced the indictment. Both men were arrested on June 17, 2025.
Hector Perez is 34 and Flavio Perez is 29. The indictment contains eight counts: both brothers are charged with wire fraud conspiracy, and Hector Perez is additionally charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Prosecutors said that between May 2018 and November 2020, the brothers created corporate entities posing as businesses seeking to sell debt, and sold fraudulent invoices to at least four invoice factoring companies. Invoice factoring is a financial service that provides immediate cash flow to a business in exchange for its outstanding invoices; the factoring company that buys the invoices then has the right to collect the money owed by the debtors. After the victim companies transferred money to bank accounts controlled by one or both defendants, they either never got paid on the fake invoices they had purchased or were paid much less than they were due.
Prosecutors said the payments that were made generally came from bank accounts held in the names of fictitious debtors, and were designed to disguise the fraud so the defendants could avoid detection and continue the scheme. According to the indictment, from May 2018 through September 2020, the victims' overall losses totaled more than $1.8 million.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Denise N. Yasinow and Matthew Thuesen are prosecuting the case. If convicted, Hector Perez faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the wire fraud and conspiracy counts, plus a mandatory consecutive two years in prison for the aggravated identity theft count; Flavio Perez faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the conspiracy count. Any sentence would be determined by the court after consideration of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and other factors. The charges are only allegations; the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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