WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section issued the following press release:
A federal jury in the District of Maryland convicted a Maryland man yesterday who owned and operated a company which offered charter flights on private jets. He defrauded his victims of approximately $15 million by falsely promising to use their upfront $150,000 payments to help the company buy a plane in exchange for a block of discounted flight hours and a promise that their money would be protected.
"Patrick Britton-Harr stole millions of dollars from his customers by lying to them about how he would use and protect their money," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department...