电信建设公司前CEO认罪：侵吞逾500万美元、行贿逾100万美元，同意赔偿逾2500万美元
美国纽约南区联邦检察官办公室2026年11月12日宣布，一家已倒闭的电信建设与工程公司创始人、前首席执行官兼所有人 Anthony Tepedino 当日在联邦法院认罪，承认商业贿赂、欺诈与加重身份盗窃等罪行。现年62岁、住在新泽西州 Manalapan 的 Tepedino 同意没收逾500万美元非法所得，并赔偿逾2500万美元，定于2027年2月17日在联邦地区法官 Richard M. Berman 面前宣判。
据起诉文件，该公司经营十多年，一度年营收达数亿美元、雇员逾500人。约从2017年至2024年，Tepedino 实施多项骗局，诈骗对象包括公司最大的客户、最大的债权银行以及公司本身。他与同伙设立空壳公司、伪造发票，从公司侵吞逾500万美元，又用部分赃款向自己、亲属与债权人付款。
约从2018年至2024年9月，Tepedino 与一名同伙向一家由同伙控制的空壳公司提交虚假发票套取付款，并让同伙冒充第三方所有人与公司沟通，累计盗走逾500万美元。约从2020年至2024年9月，他又拿出逾100万美元，向大客户公司一名高级经理行贿，换取对方把价值数百万美元的新合同与工程交给其公司并批准发票。这四年间，该客户向其公司支付了逾3亿美元。
同一时期，Tepedino 还诈骗公司的最大贷款银行，2021年末至2022年初以公司名义取得逾1800万美元商业信贷，申请时对空壳公司关系与行贿往来作出虚假陈述与隐瞒。2024年9月及以后，他又试图让两名同伙按虚假说法串供，妨碍执法。案发后公司倒闭，员工失业，银行留下逾2500万美元未偿贷款。
纽约南区联邦检察官 Jamie McDonald 表示，Tepedino 多年侵吞数百万美元并支付逾100万美元商业贿赂，用赃款过奢华生活，公司与债权人却被留下承担后果。Tepedino 认下一项电信欺诈与诚信服务电信欺诈共谋罪，最高刑期5年，以及一项加重身份盗窃罪，须强制连续执行2年，最终刑期由法官决定。本案由联邦检察官办公室、FBI、纽约市调查局、联邦存款保险公司监察长办公室与国税局刑事调查局调查。（来源：美国司法部）
Former Telecom Construction CEO Pleads Guilty: Looted Over $5M, Paid Over $1M in Bribes, Agrees to Pay Over $25M in Restitution
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced on November 12, 2026, that Anthony Tepedino, the founder, former chief executive officer and owner of a now-defunct telecommunications construction and engineering company formerly based in New Jersey, pleaded guilty that day in federal court to commercial bribery, fraud and aggravated identity theft offenses. Tepedino, 62, of Manalapan, New Jersey, agreed to forfeit more than $5 million in proceeds and to pay restitution of more than $25 million. He is scheduled to be sentenced on February 17, 2027, before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman.
According to court filings, the company operated for over a decade, eventually earning hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue and employing more than 500 people. From at least 2017 through 2024, Tepedino ran a series of schemes to defraud the company's largest customer, its largest creditor bank and the company itself, forming shell companies, creating fake invoices and looting the company of more than $5 million, using some of the proceeds to pay himself, his relatives and his creditors.
From about 2018 through September 2024, Tepedino and a co-conspirator submitted false invoices to generate payments to a non-operational shell company the co-conspirator controlled, with the co-conspirator impersonating a supposed third-party owner, stealing more than $5 million in total. From about 2020 through September 2024, Tepedino used stolen money to fund more than $1 million in commercial bribes to a senior manager at the customer company, in exchange for steering millions of dollars in new contracts and work to his company and approving its invoices. The customer paid his company more than $300 million over those roughly four years.
During the same period, Tepedino also defrauded the company's largest lender, obtaining more than $18 million in commercial credit in late 2021 and early 2022 through false statements and omissions about the shell company and the bribery. In and after September 2024, he sought to get both co-conspirators to adopt false exculpatory narratives. After the crimes were discovered, the company went out of business, its employees lost their jobs and the bank was left with more than $25 million in unpaid loans.
U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said Tepedino embezzled millions of dollars and paid more than a million dollars in commercial bribes, funding a lavish lifestyle while his company and creditors were left holding the bag. Tepedino pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services wire fraud, carrying a maximum of five years in prison, and one count of aggravated identity theft, carrying a mandatory consecutive two years, with the sentence to be determined by the judge. The case was investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI, the New York City Department of Investigation, the FDIC Office of Inspector General and IRS Criminal Investigation. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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