From The Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM — A 52-year-old man was charged with devising a scheme to defraud Jefferson County’s retirement plan.
According to the United States Department of Justice, Gary Dean Gibbs Jr. was charged with one count of wire fraud after allegedly concealing his father’s death from GRS and collected $132,646.12 from September 2017 through February 2022.
Gibbs reportedly used his father’s personal identifiers and forged his father’s signature on documents submitted to GRS to further his scheme. Additionally, the information alleges that Gibbs assumed his father’s identity during telephone calls with a GRS employee.
Gibbs pleaded guilty to the information. The maximum penalty for wire fraud is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
