Acting United States Attorney Matthew R. Molsen announced that a Florida couple has been sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Jaiveer Tyee, 53, and Xanthe Tabbs, 56, both from Coral Gables, were sentenced on May 2, 2025. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. handed down a sentence of nine months’ imprisonment to Tyee and three years’ probation to Tabbs. Both individuals are required to pay $138,926.71 in restitution.
The case involved a scheme that took place between April 25 and July 19, 2018. During this period, Tyee and Tabbs conspired to defraud a company located in the District of Nebraska that specialized in subscription-based services for real-time weather, agricultural, energy, and commodity market information.
An unknown individual used a spoofed email account posing as a vendor of the victim company to request changes related to an invoice payment process underway at the time. The fraudulent email contained false wiring instructions and third-party bank account information unrelated to the actual vendor.
On May 23, 2018, the victim company was deceived into making an unauthorized wire transfer totaling $280,646 from its financial institution to a third-party bank account jointly accessed by Tyee and Tabbs. After the deposit of these funds, they quickly engaged in various financial transactions such as obtaining cashier’s checks and making additional wire transfers.
Despite recovering part of the fraudulently transferred amount after discovering the deception, the victim company sustained losses amounting to $138,926.71.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation into this case.