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    Scapegoat
    Scapegoat
    Scapegoat
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    Scapegoat

    By Greg Hoffman

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    This is a true story of the United States of America v. Gregory Hoffman, being accused of bank larceny. Within the pages of this book, you will be following the actual trial of Gregory Hoffman on bank larceny charges after being employed by an armored car service in Bonita Springs, Florida. The FBI produced evidence to convince a grand jury that a series of bank thefts were being charged against Gregory Hoffman. As they put their facts together, the FBI believed they had enough evidence to convict. The district attorney agreed and authorized the prosecution. But did the FBI really have proof that Mr. Hoffman actually stole the money? What really happened to the missing money? Enter the pages to find out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCovenant Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 23, 2024
    ISBN9798893093872
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      Scapegoat - Greg Hoffman

      Table of Contents

      Title

      Copyright

      Introduction

      Warrant for Arrest

      Larceny

      The US Attorney

      Preliminary Hearing

      Standing Discovery Order

      Government’s Response to Standing Discovery Order

      Federal Bureau of Investigation

      Exhibit Disposition Record and Witnesses

      Status Report

      Governments Motion for Continuance

      Speedy Trial

      Government’s Report on Status of Compliance with the Speedy Trial Act

      Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for Violation of the Speedy Trial Act and Memorandum of Law

      Memorandum of Law

      Jury Trial

      Jury Selection

      Jury Listing

      Defendant’s Requested Jury Instructions

      Court’s Instructions to the Jury

      Opening Statements

      Witnesses

      Exclusions

      Examination

      Defense Questioning (Excerpt of Jury Trial)

      Admissible Evidence

      Closing Arguments

      Final Instructions

      About the Author

      Scapegoat

      Greg Hoffman

      ISBN 979-8-89309-386-5 (Paperback)

      ISBN 979-8-89309-387-2 (Digital)

      Copyright © 2024 Greg Hoffman

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

      Covenant Books

      11661 Hwy 707

      Murrells Inlet, SC 29576

      www.covenantbooks.com

      To my parents, Lowell and Pat Hoffman, for all their love and support they have given to me throughout my life. Both of you will always be in my heart. Love always…

      Introduction

      It had all started back in March of 1986, approximately two or three weeks after resigning from the Lee County Sheriff’s Department. I enjoyed being involved in law enforcement and being a road deputy, but the county I worked for had a lot of political gray areas, as well as interdepartmental corruption. I wanted to continue a law enforcement career but with a better department, which was a difficult task to find and be accepted.

      So until I could find another law enforcement agency, I took a job working for an armored car service. The name of the company was Florida Armored Car and Courier Service. When I started working for the service, I was hired on as an armored car driver/guard and a short time later became a messenger.

      The duties of the driver/guard were to go from one bank to another in the fastest and shortest way possible. The duty of being a guard was to also make sure that the armored truck was as close to the service door as possible and also make sure to have it positioned so that no other objects or vehicles could obstruct its path from either direction, in case of an emergency such as a possible carjacking or heist. Finally, the guard was responsible for the safety of the messenger, as well as the bank deposit deliveries, and to make sure everything ran smoothly without a hitch.

      The duties of the messenger were to pick up and deliver any money that was to be transferred between the main banks and their branches. The messenger was also responsible for all the paperwork, which consisted of arrival and departure times from each stop at the banks. The messenger also had to record all the dollar amounts of all the bags of money picked up by putting the figures on the appropriate log sheets. The average number of stops per day was between 65 to 115, depending on payroll periods.

      After about three months into the job, alleged money disappearances started to appear. The first alleged disappearance was at the Sun Bank branch on Airport Road in Naples, Florida. What had happened was that my partner in the armored truck, who was the driver, and I had arrived at the Sun Bank branch to pick up a deposit that was to be delivered to the Sun Bank main office at Pelican Bay in Naples, Florida.

      The bag of money that was picked up was said to contain $150,000 in different denominations of bills. I myself personally signed for the pickup, and the bag was sealed by the bank from which it was picked up.

      After I received the shipment to be delivered, it was then logged into the daily trip sheet for deliveries and then taken to its destination, which was the main office of Sun Bank in Naples.

      Once at the Sun Bank main office, the bag containing the said amount of $150,000 was hand-delivered to, and signed as being received by, the bank vault custodian. Once a shipment is received and signed for by the bank to which it was delivered, the armored car service and its employees are relieved of any responsibility for that particular delivery.

      Unfortunately, even though the armored car service and its employees are supposed to be relieved of any further responsibility for any delivery received and signed for by the bank, the bank will always blame the delivery company and its employees if any problems arise.

      The case in point on this particular delivery was that there was an alleged $10,000 shortage in the bag delivered, which was said to have contained $150,000. The alleged shortage was discovered about an hour after the money was delivered and signed for.

      The bank official then called the armored car service with which I was employed and expressed the fact that an alleged shortage of $10,000 was found in the delivery that they just received. At that point, my partner and I were dispatched by our office and made aware of the complaint from Sun Bank’s main office.

      The following day, after the alleged shortage, my partner and I were instructed to go and have a polygraph exam given to us regarding the alleged shortage. We did, as well as several of the bank vault employees from the Sun Bank branch office from which the delivery was picked up.

      My partner and I had both passed the polygraph exam; however, the other individuals from the bank who took the exam were terminated due to the outcome of their results. No further action was taken in reference to the alleged $10,000 shortage.

      The next alleged shortage was for $40,000 that was picked up from the Barnett Bank branch at the K-Mart Plaza in South Naples. Again, I personally picked it up and signed for it and then logged it into the daily trip sheet for shipments. After it was logged, my partner, Harold Reynolds, and I went to several other Barnett Bank branches to pick up more deliveries to be taken to the main bank of Barnett, which was located on Fifth Avenue South, in Naples, Florida.

      As soon as we had picked up all the shipments that day for delivery to the main office, we headed straight over to Barnett’s main office to drop off what we had just picked up. The total number of bags was seven.

      When we arrived, I got out of the truck, loaded all seven bags onto a hand truck, and took them in through the back service door of the bank. Once in the bank, I went directly to the vault area, at which point I removed all seven bags from the hand truck, placed them on the floor, and then handed the delivery sheet to the vault custodian so that she could sign it as proof of receiving the shipment. Her name was Barbara Saad.

      As I stated on the first alleged shortage, once a signature was received from the receiving point, all responsibility was released from us over that particular shipment of the seven bags.

      However, approximately two months after I had delivered those seven bags, and got a signature as being received by Barnett Bank’s main office, a call came into our office stating that a bag said to have contained $40,000 was never received. However, the vault custodian had signed our log sheet showing that they did indeed receive that bag as one of the seven bags delivered. Once again, the bank blamed someone else for their mistakes.

      After that alleged shortage, both Harold Reynolds and I had voluntarily gone to the FBI field office in Naples, Florida, to take another polygraph test. After taking the test, we were both told that we had passed. At that time, that was the last we heard of the alleged shortage of the $40,000 bag. No employees of the Barnett Bank main office were ever given a polygraph test in regard to the alleged shortage.

      On another occasion, Harold and I were making our scheduled stops on Marco Island, Florida. We had about a half dozen banks, as well as several vacation resorts, such as the Marco Marriott Hotel and Eagle’s Nest Resort. One of the bank stops that we had was at Naples Federal Savings and Loan. That particular bank was located at Caxambas Drive in the corner of a Publix supermarket shopping plaza.

      We stopped at the plaza to pick up a bag containing $38,000 to be delivered to another bank up north in Sarasota, Florida. The bank in Sarasota was NCNB.

      Unfortunately, whenever there is money to be delivered to Sarasota, it will not be delivered on the same day that it was picked up because, by the time we finish with all our stops, it would be too late in the day to get to

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