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Blue Dog scammers sued by insurance company
DAYTON - An insurance company has filed a lawsuit against a former Oakwood couple convicted of illegally diverting $280,000 from a local advertising agency.
Cincinnati Insurance Company filed the lawsuit Tuesday, Feb. 2 against Todd D. Wilkerson, a former Blue Dog Productions employee, and his wife, Alison L. Wilkerson, who worked for the firm as an account executive on a contract basis. The Wilkersons now live in Birmingham, Ala.
The Wilkersons both pleaded no contest in September 2008 to engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a first-degree felony, and to two third-degree felonies: aggravated theft and money laundering.
Under Ohio law, a first-degree felony is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. A third-degree felony is punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
Under the plea agreement, Alison Wilkerson was placed on probation. Todd Wilkerson was sentenced to three years in prison, though prosecutors agreed not to object to judicial release after six months. Wilkerson has since been released from prison, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
The lawsuit seeks $279,000 in damages, and states that the company paid nearly $193,000 to Blue Dog Productions, which is co-owned by prominent Dayton attorney Mike Dyer.
The Wilkersons were not ordered to pay restitution, because under Ohio law, restitution cannot be paid to a third-party, in this case the insurance company. At the time of Todd Wilkerson’s sentencing, Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Barbara P. Gorman said she disagreed with that.
“I think you should be paying restitution,” Gorman said. “But that’s not my call.”
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