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Sean Winkleman INDICTED FOR TAX EVASION, MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS


Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:36:04 EDT

Holly Hill, Florida (INDY) -- A local Holly Hill man was placed under arrest yesterday when it was discovered he had been running an illegal offshore operation for the past decade.

"You pigs don't even know the half of it!" sputtered Winkleman as he was dragged away in handcuffs. Winkleman is being investigated for his role in a vending machine scheme that earned him millions of dollars in pennies, nickels and dimes that he was then funneling through a false corporation located on a small island off the coast of
New Jersey.

"The suspect hadn't thought to convert the embezzled change into cash, and he was witnessed on several occasions dragging large, clanking bags down to the pier," Lieutenant Alison Casale announced in a press conference. "We've got hours of surveillance tape that show him heaving large sacks into a small boat, then rowing frantically away in the direction of New Jersey."

Winkleman is expected to be arraigned earlier today in downtown Holly Hill. "Why did it have to be pennies?" he was heard mournfully sighing as Lt. Alison Casale locked the paddy wagon doors on him.