An Arnolds Park man who defrauded a Florida innkeeper whereas on supervised launch on financial institution fraud and wire costs was sentenced on February 1, 2022, to 3 years in federal jail.  Ronald Goldberg, age 63, from Arnold’s Park, Iowa, obtained the jail time period after a three-day listening to in federal court docket in Sioux Metropolis.

Proof on the supervised launch revocation and detention hearings confirmed that, in January 2019, Goldberg checked into an ocean-front resort in Palm Seaside, Florida, with a bank card from a luxurious car dealership in Dallas, Texas.  When the auto dealership known as the resort to query a cost on its bank card invoice, the resort confronted Goldberg.  Goldberg then left the resort in the course of the evening with out paying his resort invoice in full.

On the time of the incident on the Palm Seaside resort, Goldberg was on supervised launch for a 2016 conviction in america District Court docket for the District of South Dakota for 2 counts of financial institution fraud and one depend of wire fraud.  Goldberg has a prolonged legal historical past, together with prior federal convictions for wire fraud and interstate transportation of cash obtained by fraud within the Jap District of Pennsylvania, interstate transportation of stolen securities, possession of stolen securities, financial institution fraud, and tried escape within the Southern District of Florida, forging a signature of a United States Justice of the Peace Choose in america District Court docket for the Jap District of Pennsylvania, and Wire Fraud in america District Court docket for the Southern District of New York.  After the Iowa federal court docket issued a warrant for Goldberg’s arrest in 2021 to reply for the 2019 incident, Goldberg didn’t give up himself and in the end was arrested in a resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Goldberg was sentenced in Sioux Metropolis by United States District Court docket Chief Choose Leonard T. Strand.  On the listening to, Chief Choose Strand discovered Goldberg dedicated the Florida crime of defrauding an innkeeper, a felony, however not a separate cost of unauthorized use of a bank card.  In imposing sentence, Chief Choose Strand referred to Goldberg as a “con artist” with a prolonged historical past of defrauding victims.  Goldberg, who holds himself out as a high quality Italian wine importer, was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment.  He should additionally serve a two-year time period of supervised launch after the jail time period.  There isn’t any parole within the federal system.

Goldberg is being held in america Marshal’s custody till he could be transported to a federal jail.  Court docket file data at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.  The case file quantity is 16-CR-4066-LTS.

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