Two former Delta Air Lines Inc. employees were indicted for allegedly defrauding the Atlanta-based carrier out of $22 million through a false invoicing scheme.
According to U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, the indictment, and other information presented in court: Paul Anderson had been an employee of Northwest Airlines since 1979. In 2008, Delta (NYSE: DAL) bought Northwest. The two airlines merged into a single company in December 2009, at which time Anderson became an employee of Delta working in its Minneapolis, Minn., office.
The indictment alleges from at least 2004 through 2013, Anderson was involved with Michael Yedor in a scheme to defraud Northwest and, later, Delta, by submitting numerous false invoices on behalf of a company, Airborne Voice and Data, purportedly owned by Yedor. The invoices sought payment from the airlines for goods provided and services supposedly rendered by Airborne Voice and Data, when in fact, both Anderson and Yedor knew Yedor’s company had not provided any such goods or services.
The indictment also alleges Yedor sent the invoices to Anderson to be approved. Anderson approved the fraudulent invoices, which caused the airlines to issue payments to Airborne Voice and Data. In exchange for approving each of the invoices, Anderson received a portion of the proceeds of the fraud.
The indictment alleges Yedor and Anderson caused Northwest and Delta to issue some $22 million in payments to Airborne on the basis of the false invoices between 2004 and 2013.
Yedor, 62, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Anderson, 57, of Apple Valley, Minn., were indicted on June 10, 2014, and have each been charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and ninety-six counts of mail fraud.
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