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\nThe president and owner of a large manufacturing company with operations in Louisville and southern Indiana was arrested Friday on several warrants.<\/p>\n
\nThe president and owner of a large manufacturing company with operations in Louisville and southern Indiana was arrested Friday on several warrants.<\/p>\n
Kentucky State Police arrested 57-year-old John Christopher Gibbs, the president and CEO of GIM, Inc. Gibbs is facing multiple counts of theft, fraud and corrupt business influence.<\/p>\n
Last November, GIM, Inc. announced they were expanding its Louisville services to Scottsburg. The plan was to build a 300,000-square-foot facility, which would have brought hundreds of jobs. However, a short time into the project, employees and several vendors began receiving fraudulent checks for their services. <\/p>\n
The victims included various contractors in southern Indiana and a locally based financial institution. There is more than $302,000 total in suspected fraudulent monies in the case.<\/p>\n
There was more than $18 million invested in the Scottsburg project. The facility was going to make a replacement for concrete that could be used in parking garages, bridges and more.<\/p>\n
According to Indiana State Police, a detective was contacted by a business vendor and potential fraud victim in March. The vendor alleged Gibbs paid for services with a fraudulent check.<\/p>\n
The check was for an amount for more than $10,000, and detectives believe Gibbs knowingly wrote the check the day after he closed the associated checking account.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the investigation, detectives learned of other agencies who were potential victims and owed large payments from GIM, Inc. for the work they completed at the factory in Scottsburg.<\/p>\n
Gibbs was arrested at a Simpsonville hotel that he was using as his residence. Kentucky State Police also arrested Gibbs on related warrants from Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.
\nSource: WDRB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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