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Man sentenced for check fraud scheme

By Laura McVicker
Published: July 20, 2010, 12:00am

An Oregon man has been sentenced to two years in prison in federal court for running a check-kiting scheme that victimized several banks, including two Vancouver institutions.

Bryan M. Domagalski, 37, formerly of Beaverton, Ore., was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland by Judge Garr King. The judge also ordered him to pay full restitution to his victims and serve five years’ supervised release.

Domagalski pleaded guilty in May to bank fraud, admitting he and co-defendant Christopher Brass opened 25 fraudulent accounts at banks throughout Washington and Oregon, including People’s Community Credit Union and Columbia Credit Union in Vancouver.

Prosecutors said they wrote non-sufficient fund checks on one account and sent them to other accounts, quickly withdrawing money before banks had time to discover the accounts were worthless.

The two wrote more than $127,000 in bad checks, causing an actual total loss to banks of more than $84,000.

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