Gardenhires Found Guilty for Fraud
By: Dylan Brooks
Updated: October 1, 2010
A fraud case has come to an end, and two local brothers have been found guilty.
Gary and Jerrod Gardenhire were both convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Prosecutors say they cheated their boss out more than $2.5 million by having customers send payments to a bogus third-party company. Then the Gardenhires took that money.
Some of that money was later used to restore the Penwell Knights Raceway, which has since shut down. The government is now trying to recover some of the stolen money from the track.
Both Gardenhires will be sentenced in December.
