A Missouri telephone executive believed to have aided the Gambino crime family in what the federal government calls the largest consumer fraud in American history was arrested July 27 by the FBI at his Belton, Kansas home.
Cass County Telephone Company chief executive Kenneth Matzdorff is accused of running USP&C, an Overland Park-based outfit said to be used by the Gambino family for putting false charges on telephone bills; and, of running LEC LLC, a 99 percent owner of Cass County Telephone and suspected of laundering money from an Internet porn operation.
Authorities estimated the total amount stolen in the scams to be in excess of $1 billion.
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