Indictments were returned against four defendants who were charged in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for participating in a nationwide timeshare telemarking fraud scheme.
Mark Parks, Mindy Parks, Ashley Conant and Eileen Goltz were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
According to a criminal complaint filed related to this case, the conspirators supposedly operated a fraudulent timeshare resale scheme in Green Bay that resulted in at least 1,000 victims in 20 states and Canada being defrauded of over $2.3 million. The scam allegedly occurred from 2007 to 2011 under several different names, including Integrated Advertising Solutions, National Timeshare Resales, Administrative Timeshare Resales and Midwest Timeshare.
The complaint claims victims were told that buyers were interested in purchasing their existing timeshares in exchange for upfront “administrative fees” ranging from a few hundred dollars to at least a thousand dollars.
The scam targeted older timeshare owners who had been previously victimized by similar schemes, the complaint says.
Each defendant faces up to 20 years’ imprisonment, a fine of up to $250,000, a $100 special assessment, and up to three years of supervised release. In addition, pursuant to the Senior Citizens Against Marketing Scams Act, if the U.S. government can prove that at least 10 individuals over 55 were victims of this alleged telemarketing scheme, each conspirator could face an extra 10 years in prison.
