ANCHORAGE –
A Michigan man has been convicted of using fake charitable organizations in an Alaska fraud and identity theft case.
On Monday, 46-year-old Alan Michael Bartlett, of Owosso, Mich., was convicted of two counts of mail fraud, 20 counts of bank fraud, five counts of wire fraud, five counts of false statements to the U.S. Postal Service and five counts of aggravated identity theft, according to a statement from the Alaska U.S. District Attorney’s office.
Bartlett reportedly established two businesses — United States Disabled Veterans, LLC, and United States Handicapped-Disadvantaged Services, LLC – whose missions were allegedly “to help provide real jobs for disabled and disadvantaged Americans,” according to the DA. Instead, Bartlett used them to obtain donations to benefit himself between July 2011 and January 2012.