A former accountant from Mammoth Spring was sentenced Wednesday for bank fraud after stealing more than $9 million from his client in Trumann, Arkansas. 71 year old Edward Cooper, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison.
Cooper worked as an accountant with the Osborn & Osborn accounting firm in Jonesboro and handled a number of financial affairs for Roach Manufacturing Corporation, a family business in Trumann. Beginning in approximately 1996, when he prepared dividend distribution checks and tax checks for Roach Manufacturing, he requested extra checks and then made them payable to himself.
Cooper deposited these checks into his own account without the permission or knowledge of Roach Manufacturing. He took approximately 138 unauthorized checks from 1996 through 2018, totaling over $9 million. In the fall of 2017, Roach Manufacturing hired a financial manager who detected the fraud, leading to the criminal case.
Cooper pleaded guilty in January 2020 to an Information charging him with one count of bank fraud. In addition to 60 months in prison, Cooper was sentenced to two years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment. Cooper was also ordered to pay $7,401,744.82 in restitution. The case was investigated by the FBI.
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