Paul Moe Senior has been convicted of defrauding APM Terminals at Port Elizabeth, Port of NY-NJ of his payment package, worth $500,000 in annual salary payments.
Moe, 66, was the General Foreman of the Rubber Tired Gantry Crane Department for APM Terminals, reported Joc.com.
A jury convicted Moe on 14 counts on October 31, 2017, according to New Jersey’s District Attorney's Office, which published the indictment.
Charges read to the jury related to fraudulently collecting a salary for over a year, mostly for work he never performed.
Moe had collected a compensation package that paid him at a rate of almost $500,000 annually while showing up at the job site for as little as eight hours per week.
Co-conspirators submitted false timesheets each day on his behalf, crediting him up to 16 hours of overtime a day, and allowing Moe to collect his $9,300 weekly paycheck from September, 2015 through March, 2017.
The 13 substantive wire fraud counts consist of one-week increments in which Moe – having either failed to appear at the job site or while being out of state or out of the country – was paid as if he had been on the job for a minimum of 40 hours a week.
Penalties will be announced later during sentencing, but each count is potentially punishable by up to twenty years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Moe was also a member of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA).
He was convicted following a 10-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Katharine S. Hayden in Newark federal court. The jury deliberated for two hours before returning its verdict.
Port Elizabeth is APM Terminals' largest terminal on the east coast of North America, containing 1,964 reefer plugs.
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