A Syracuse man faces 20 years in prison for filing false bankruptcy petitions in New York and several other states alleging that law enforcement officials and judges owed him millions of dollars in debts.
Federal prosecutors say 41-year-old Robert Johnson filed the bogus bankruptcy papers claiming the officials were commodity brokers who committed wire fraud and other crimes and owed him money.
Johnson is also alleged to have filed a bankruptcy petition that claimed a Syracuse non-profit was associated with environmental hazards, money laundering, and Ponzi schemes. The F-B-I found all the petitions to be false.
