Fresno-Area Executive Gets Prison Time in Multi-Million Dollar Fraud

Man sentenced for scheme to steal $4.8 million in livestock feed ingredients using train-to-truck transloading company

A California judge sentenced a man to prison for his role in stealing millions of dollars worth of product from food processors through a fraud scheme involving a transloading company. Shawn Sawa, 49, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California. Officials say that between 2015 and 2017, Sawa and co-defendant Richard…

Fresno-Area Executive Gets Prison Time in Multi-Million Dollar Fraud

A former Clovis corporate manager was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for helping steal nearly $5 million worth of canola used in livestock feed from international food processors, federal prosecutors said. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 49-year-old Shawn Sawa was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston after admitting his role in a years-long fraud scheme that ran from 2015 to 2017 and moved millions of d…