More than a year after his arrest, a 33-year-old Warsaw man was told today that he will spend a year in prison for grand larceny for his part in a complicated scheme to steal from employers and customers at three different Batavia businesses.
As part of his plea agreement, Dustin Hurlburt paid $14,739.92 in restitution to his victims.
Hurlburt was accused of making more than $22,000 in purchases at Armor Building Supply, where he worked, using credit card numbers he obtained while employed as a full-service gas station attendant.
The purchases were made for a local building site, where Hurlburt acted as a contractor. He then billed the customers for the items he bought using the stolen credit card numbers.
The alleged purchases were made between October 2009 and December 2009.
In connection with that case, Nicholas Salvador, 46, of 20 Park Ave., Batavia, owner of East Main Sunoco, was charged in federal court with fraud. Those charges were quickly dismissed.
Meanwhile, a Rochester law firm, Leclair Korona Giordano Cole, LLP, announced today that their client, Robert Burt, won a civil case in which he was being sued by victims of a "Ponzi scheme" centered in Perry and reportedly run by Hurlburt.
In connection to that case, Hurlburt entered a guilty to federal mail fraud charges charges in 2005. The scheme operated from 2001 through 2003.
