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A 41-year-old Denver man who posed as a MoneyGram employee has been sentenced to prison for bilking the company out of nearly $625,000 during a four-year period.
The Secret Service said Patrick Hamilton, claiming he was a Money Gram employee, told Money Gram’s merchant vendors that he needed to “test” their systems.
He then arranged for Money Gram locations to send “test” wire transfers from $5,000 to $9,000 to other vendors, investigators said.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Denver said Hamilton completed more than 200 fraudulent transactions totaling about $625,000.
Chief U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel sentenced Hamilton to 33 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay restitution of $624,779 to MoneyGram.
