Julian
A Julian man was sentenced to four months in jail Monday and ordered to pay $700 a month for defrauding the Navy of more than $40,000 in a 6-year check cashing scheme.
U.S. District Judge William B. Enright imposed the sentence on James Canning II, 33, who prosecutors said cashed Navy retirement checks intended for his father between January, 1977, and October, 1983.
Canning’s father, also named James Canning, who had been receiving retirement checks since 1956, died in 1977. Canning forged the eligibility forms to mislead the Navy into believing his father was still alive so that he could receive and cash the checks, prosecutors charged.
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