Prison For Atlantic Highlands Longshoreman

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NJ —A member of the International Longshoremen’s Association and general foreman for a Port Elizabeth terminal operator was sentenced Monday to 24 months in prison for fraudulently collecting a nearly $500,000 annual salary, much of which was for work he never performed, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Paul Moe Sr., 66, who lives in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, was convicted in a trial last fall on all 14 counts of an indictment charging him with one count of wire fraud conspiracy and 13 substantive counts of wire fraud. He was convicted following a 10-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Katharine S. Hayden, who imposed the sentence Monday in Newark federal court. A photo of Moe was not provided by federal prosecutors.

From September 2015 through March 2017, Moe fraudulently collected a compensation package that paid him almost $500,000 annually while showing up at his job site for as little as eight hours per week. In order for Moe to collect his $9,300 weekly paycheck, other conspirators submitted false timesheets each day on his behalf and even credited him for up to 16 hours of overtime a day. The 13 substantive wire fraud counts consist of one-week increments in which Moe – having either failed to appear at the job site or while being out of state or out of the country – was paid as if he had been on the job for a minimum of 40 hours a week.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Hayden sentenced Moe to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution of $749,000.

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