WEBSTER MAN WHO COMMITTED FRAUD WHILE AWAITING SENTENCING ON A PREVIOUS FRAUD CONVICTION SENTENCED

ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Timothy Siverd, 38, of Webster, NY, who was convicted of two counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, was sentenced to serve 111 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas M. Testani, who handled the case, stated that in November 2021, while employed as a vice president at Tompkins Community Bank, Siverd convinced two victims to invest in fraudulent real estate transactions. Victim 1 paid Siverd approximately $158,429, but after realizing that the transactions were fraudulent, Victim 1 demanded repayment. Siverd returned $108,429 of Victim 1’s funds, using funds fraudulently obtained from Victim 2, who paid Siverd $346,511.55. Siverd never returned any of Victim 2’s funds.

While on supervised release for committing this scheme, between November 2022, and September 19, 2024, Siverd operated and controlled ROC Scrubby LLC, a residential and commercial cleaning services company. During that time, Siverd overbilled ROC Scrubby clients for cleaning services that were not performed. He would manually change appointments on ROC Scrubby’s booking software without client permission to increase the amount each client would be billed, however employees would not perform the more expensive services. He used, without lawful authority, client credit card numbers to overbill his clients.

The sentencing is the result of an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Erin Keegan and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Todd Baxter.