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WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2008, 0:21 a.m.
By Ryan Haggerty
West Allis man accused of fraud
A West Allis man has been charged with defrauding people of hundreds of thousands of dollars while operating a motorcycle company, according to a criminal complaint.
According to the complaint:
Scott A. Yadro, 50, committed the fraud while operating a business known as Milwaukee Motorcycle Company.
Yadro told investigators that he accepted payments for motorcycles but did not deliver the bikes, deposited counterfeit checks and wrote bad checks.
Between February 2002 and October 2003, the state Department of Transportation received about 20 complaints from people and businesses across the country who claimed they had been victims of fraud committed by Yadro, according to the complaint.
The losses incurred by those complainants totaled more that $800,000, according to the complaint.
The claims filed with the state Department of Transportation accused Yadro of failing to deliver motorcycles, failing to deliver titles or manufacturers' certificates of origin, failing to return deposits, selling the same motorcycle several times to different people, stealing motorcycles and defrauding investors.
Yadro also was charged with a felony in Florida in 2006; he was accused of defrauding 26 people there of more than $290,000, according to the complaint. That case is still open. Yadro has not yet returned to Florida to appear in court, citing health problems, according to the complaint.
In Wisconsin, Yadro is charged with three counts of theft by fraud and two counts of issuing worthless checks. He faces multiple fines and more than 27 years imprisonment
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