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Accountant Gets Prison For Deceiving Bank To Get Loans

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Published: February 25, 2009

TAMPA - An accountant who submitted false statements to a bank so he could get loans for his business and his clients was sentenced today in federal court to one year and a day in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Jose Roman, 44, of Tampa, was also ordered to pay $227,000 in restitution by U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr.

Roman, who pleaded guilty Oct. 9, was an accountant in a private practice that worked with clients who needed commercial loans, according to court documents. Roman submitted false statements to the Bank of Tampa on behalf of those clients to get the bank to issue the loans.

Prosecutors say the paperwork included business or personal financial statements showing overstated assets, understated liabilities and bogus tax returns with overstated income entries.

Roman applied for one loan for one of his companies and submitted fraudulent tax returns as part of that application.

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