GOSHEN – A 27-year-old Newburgh man was sentenced in Orange County Court on Monday to 3 ½ to 10 years in state prison in connection with a wide- ranging fraud scheme that spanned from March 2021 through April 2022 and which resulted in a total loss of over $250,000 to local businesses.
Anthony Dubuisson, 27, and co-defendants engaged in a scheme of depositing altered and/or fraudulent checks belonging to Ironworkers Local 417 and other businesses as well as individuals, into bank accounts and then withdrew cash.
The defendants, working together, created fake business accounts to facilitate the check deposits.
The total amount of forged and altered checks from Local 417 was in excess of $190,000 and the total amount of checks deposited from all victims was more than $250,000.
The investigation was led by Newburgh Town Police with assistance from New Windsor Police, the Dutchess and Orange County Sherif’s Offices, Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the State Department of Financial Services.
Orange County DA David Hoovler said several other defendants previously admitted to defrauding Local 417.
