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LYNCHBURG AP) – A Waynesboro man who orchestrated a cardboard recycling scheme that cost the Kroger supermarket chain about $1.6 million has been sentenced to a year-and-a-half in prison.
A federal judge in Lynchburg on Friday also sentenced 39-year-old Thomas Faulkner to three years of probation and ordered him to make full restitution. Faulkner previously pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy, mail fraud and hiring illegal aliens.
Faulkner owned a company that collected cardboard at a Salem warehouse and transported it to Kroger-approved recycling centers. He admitted creating a shell company that was paid for diverting materials to other facilities.
Two men who assisted Faulkner also were sentenced. Forty-one-year-old Glenn Miguel Wagner of Salem got three years of probation, and 58-year-old Bernard Smith of Penhook was sentenced to two years of probation.
