Political party chairman charged with scheme to defraud

January 8, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Loretta Lynch. AP file photo
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Suffolk County Conservative Party Chairman Edward M. Walsh Jr. was arrested Wednesday on charges that he engaged in a scheme to steal wages for regular and overtime hours in connection with his employment with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), the Brooklyn Daily Eagle has learned. 

Walsh, 48, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson at the federal courthouse on Long Island.

As alleged in the criminal complaint unsealed today, from January 2011 to April 2014, Walsh, a SCSO Correction Officer III Investigator, falsely represented to the SCSO that he had worked certain regular and overtime hours when, in fact, he did not. Contrary to his representations, Walsh was, among other things, playing golf, gambling at Foxwoods Casino or performing work on behalf of the Suffolk County Conservative Party. In reliance on Walsh’s false representations, the SCSO paid Walsh approximately $80,000 in wages for regular and overtime hours he did not work. To conceal his scheme, Walsh allegedly lied to FBI agents, claiming that he worked flex time or was on the telephone regarding his work at the SCSO even while at the golf course. 

“Instead of upholding the law, Edward Walsh abused his position and authority and robbed from taxpayers to fund his personal and political activities,” said Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District.

 

-Information provided by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District

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