A Connecticut man is accused of defrauding Home Depot stores of nearly $300,000 with a no-receipt return scheme involving stores in at least eight states.
Former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli gives his market outlook and how inflation is affecting the retail industry on 'Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street.'allegedly defrauded Home Depot of nearly $300,000 with a non-receipted return scheme, federal prosecutors say.
Costa-Mota was detained without bail after a judge in federal court in Rhode Island entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. attorney's office in Providence said in a statement Wednesday.Alexandre Henrique Costa-Mota was given nearly $300,000 in fraudulent Home Depot credit by walking into stores in several states, taking expensive doors and then returning them without a receipt, federal prosecutors allege.
Prosecutors say Costa-Mota entered stores empty-handed, "dressed to appear like a contractor." He would then collect Andersen doors and bring them to each store's service department, where he made non-receipted returns of the doors. Home Depot stores in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey were involved.
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