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Rusert Court Filing
Rusert Court Filing
INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
Homes, Inc. (SCCH) registered with the Alabama Secretary of State and began
residential homebuilding.
employee and/or agent of SCCH and at times presented himself as the President of
SCCH.
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State of Alabama.
advertised and engaged in soliciting individuals and families to hire SCCH to build
families and entered into contracts with them to build a custom residential home. As
part of the contract, individuals and/or families agreed to and did pay SCCH a down
payment.
families to hire RUSERT and SCCH, RUSERT knew that he was accepting checks
and down payments from individuals and/or families and using the proceeds on
obtaining a construction loan from various financial institutions. Once the financing
was in place, RUSERT submitted false invoices and documents to the financial
institutions to obtain checks or draws from the construction loans purportedly to pay
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for materials, labor and/or expenses associated with the particular home under
construction.
obtained checks and loan draws from financial institutions and from individual and
family victims and failed to pay for the materials, labor and/or expenses for the
COUNT ONE
[18 U.S.C. §§ 1343]
10. From in or about October 2016 and continuing until in or about June
2018, the defendant, RUSERT, aided and abetted by others known and unknown to
the United States Attorney, knowingly devised and intended to devise a scheme and
artifice to defraud and obtain money and property by means of materially false and
11. It was part of the scheme and artifice that the defendant, RUSERT,
homebuilder.
12. It was part of the scheme and artifice that the defendant, RUSERT,
induced individuals and/or families to sign a contract with SCCH and RUSERT.
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13. It was part of the scheme and artifice that the defendant, RUSERT,
induced the individuals and families to pay SCCH and RUSERT a down payment.
14. It was further part of the scheme and artifice that the defendant,
15. It was further part of the scheme and artifice that the defendant,
loans purportedly to pay for materials, labor and/or expenses associated with the
16. It was further part of the scheme and artifice that the defendant,
RUSERT, used the money obtained from individuals, families and financial
institutions to pay for unrelated projects, outstanding debt and personal expenses.
WIRE TRANSMISSION
JEFFREY RUSERT
for the purpose of executing the above described scheme and artifice to defraud and
representations and promises, did knowingly and willfully transmit and cause to be
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE:
Forfeiture – 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1), § 982(a)(2)(A),
and 28 U.S.C. §2461(c)
incorporated by reference as though set forth fully herein for the purpose of alleging
forfeiture to the United States pursuant to the provisions of Title 18, United States
Code, Sections 981(a)(1), 982(a)(2)(A) and Title 28 United States Code, Section
2461(c).
JEFFREY RUSERT
is hereby notified that, upon conviction of the offense set forth in this Information,
he shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, that constitutes or
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it is the intent of the United States, pursuant to Title 21, United States Code, Section
853(p), to seek forfeiture of any other property or said defendant up to the value of
All in accordance with Title 18, United States Code, Sections 981(a)(1),
982(a)(2)(A), and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), and Rule 32.2,
JAY E. TOWN
United States Attorney