Florida man bought BMW, Rolexes after defrauding Tarrant County school district out of $2M, feds say
A Florida man defrauded a Tarrant County school district out of almost $2 million by posing as an employee at a Fort Worth construction company, federal authorities say.
Donald Howard Conkright, 61, of Big Pine Key was arrested last week on a charge of wire fraud. He remained in the Monroe County, Fla., jail on Tuesday, awaiting extradition to Texas, jail records showed.
In late October, Crowley ISD received an email purporting to be from Steele & Freeman Inc., a construction company building an elementary school and career technology center in the district, according to a federal criminal complaint.
The email said that the company's banking information had changed and that future payments should be routed to an IberiaBank account in Florida. The district wired $1 as a test, and a followup email from the same account confirmed the transaction.
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