Most wanted ‘deadbeat parent’ admits to flight to avoid $1.2M in payments
On Friday, Robert D. Sand, the nation’s “most wanted deadbeat parent,” according to a child support enforcement web page, pleaded guilty to two counts of traveling in interstate and foreign commerce with the intent to evade child support obligations totaling over $1.2 million.
The proceedings were held before the Hon. Joseph F. Bianco at the U.S. Courthouse located in Central Islip, New York. Sand faces a maximum sentence of four years’ imprisonment when sentenced on May 21, 2013.
The guilty plea was announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, based in Brooklyn; Thomas O’Donnell, special agent in charge of the New York Regional Office, Office of the Inspector General, United States Department of Health and Human Services, and Charles Dunne, United States marshal for the Eastern District of New York.