Indictment: Keebler Employees Filed False Reports To Receive Unemployment Benefits

U.S. Department of Justice

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – Federal indictments were returned Wednesday charging that 16 people who worked for Keebler Company in Kansas City, Kan., fraudulently received unemployment benefits, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.

The indictments allege that while working for Keebler each of the defendants received unemployment benefits by submitting false reports to the Kansas Department of Labor.

Defendants, who are charged in separate indictments with one count each of theft of government funds and one count of bank fraud, include the following:

• Angie Raffurty, 43, Blue Springs, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $10,488 in benefits.
• Bobby Grant, 49, Kansas City, Kan., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $31,466.
• Darrell Haywood, 32, Kansas City, Kan., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $10,564.
• Debbie Gleghorn, 55, Kansas City, Kan., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $10,633,
• Durail Bailey, 36, Kansas City, Kan., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $12,693.
• Herman Callands, Jr., 46, Kansas City, Kan., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $13,766.
• James Mango, 50, Kansas City, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $17,893
• Julian Emery, 38, Blue Springs, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $15,788.
• Maxine Nelson, 44, Kansas City., Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $12,795.
• Randy Laughlin, 55, Blue Springs, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $27,388.
• Rodney Taylor, 44, Kansas City, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $15,598.
• Rodrigo Diacono, 35, Lenexa, Kan., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $10,168.
• Tina Cooper, 48, Kansas City, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $18,796.
• Donald Barnett, 42, Independence, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $11,490.
• Edith Clark, 53, Kansas City, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $12,820.
• Kaven Daniels, 43, Kansas City, Mo., who is alleged to have fraudulently received $12,633.

If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the theft of government funds, and a maximum penalty of 30 years and a fine up to $1 million on the bank fraud charge.

The Kansas Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Labor Employee and Benefits Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Labor – Office of Inspector General and the FBI investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Oakley is prosecuting.