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$100 Million Deli Fraudster Sentenced to Prison

In Entrepreneur
May 14, 2025

This Deli made too much bread for not attraction.

In September or 2023, North Carolina businessman Peter L. Coker Mr., his son Peter Coker Jr., and a third accomplice, James T. Patten, declared themselves guilty of values ​​fraud in a scheme that falsely valued his based on Mersy based on supplement.

The artificial cokers and patten inflated the price of two companies, Hometown International, owner of the Delicatessen store, and electronic waste, so that they are more attractive to private companies. It was later revealed that the hometown only had a Deli of loss of money, and E-Waste did not operate in any capacity.

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Today, Coker Mr., 82, was sentenced on Tuesday to six months in prison and was ordered to turn six months of confinement at home after his release. You will also be asked to pay a fine of $ 500,000 and up to $ 644,000 in restitution, CNBC reports.

“I feel terrible on my part,” said Coker Mr. in his sentence. “This episode has been the sausage time of my life.”

“I regret every investor damaged by my actions,” he added.

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Coker Jr. and Patten’s sentence will continue. After his initial judgment in 2022, Coker Jr. fled and was found hidden in a hotel room in the province of Phuket in Thailand. He will face deportation after complying with his sentence, by CNBC.

“This was a fraudulent scheme from the beginning,” Judge Christine O’Hearn said at the beginning of the hearing. She described the companies without Wormth and said that “she learned more than I never care about” about their fraud operations.

This Deli made too much bread for not attraction.

In September or 2023, North Carolina businessman Peter L. Coker Mr., his son Peter Coker Jr., and a third accomplice, James T. Patten, declared themselves guilty of values ​​fraud in a scheme that falsely valued his based on Mersy based on supplement.

The artificial cokers and patten inflated the price of two companies, Hometown International, owner of the Delicatessen store, and electronic waste, so that they are more attractive to private companies. It was later revealed that the hometown only had a Deli of loss of money, and E-Waste did not operate in any capacity.

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