El Dorado County and Arizona residents indicted for embezzling more than $200K

Placerville resident Jeffrey Scott Davis, 59 has been charged on six counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and mail fraud along with Glen Michael Martinka, 67, of Phoenix, Arizona.

A federal grand jury returned the indictment after Davis and Martinka allegedly conspired to embezzle approximately $218,000 from an organic food company by submitting false invoices between December 2008 and April 2012.

Davis was the national sales manager for the company and Martinka was an employee and part owner of a vendor that marketed and sold the company’s products. Davis and Martinka had invoices made that charged the company for services that the vendor did not perform. Davis authorized the payment of the false invoices, and based on these false invoices, the company made checks payable to the vendor and mailed the checks to Martinka in Arizona. Martinka then split the fraudulently obtained money with Davis by mailing checks made payable to Davis.

The organic food company's name was not released in the indictment.

This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Shelley D. Weger is prosecuting the case.

If convicted, Davis and Martinka face a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. The charges are only allegations; the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.