ALI A. ALI SENTENCED
UPON HIS CONVICTION
FOR BANKRUPTCY FRAUD
United States Attorney Anthony J. Jenkins announced today
that Ali A. Ali, age 31,
was sentenced upon his guilty plea to Count One of a seventeen-count Indictment,
which
charged Bankruptcy Fraud, on February 10, 2006, by the Honorable Chief Judge
James
T. Giles, Sitting by Designation, in the Division of St. Thomas/St. John.
The charged offense arose out of a scheme to defraud creditors of East End
Mini-
Mart,.a business of which Ali was president, by filing a bankruptcy petition
on behalf of East
End Mini-Mart, to conceal from creditors the fact that their money had been
diverted to his
personal use.
Ali was sentenced to one year supervised probation and was ordered to pay
restitution in the amount of approximately $58,000, a fine in the amount of
$100 and a $100
special assessment. U. S. Attorney Jenkins commended the work of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, who investigated this case.
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