A Beaumont man has been sentenced to federal prison for fraud violations, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Abe McGlothin, Jr. Jerry Leonard Carnley, Jr., 55, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and received a 41-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone on May 16, 2025. Carnley was also ordered to pay restitution of $191,251.35.
Carnley worked as an office manager and IT specialist for a local psychiatric practice, where he had access to the business checking account. He used this access to withdraw money from ATMs for personal use rather than business purposes. Between December 2020 and September 2021, Carnley withheld necessary documents from an accounting firm responsible for filing federal income tax returns. He later informed the firm that he would handle the taxes himself and that their services were no longer needed.
Additionally, Carnley gained the trust of the doctor's mother under false pretenses to acquire information enabling him to change bank account passwords. From November 2020 to December 2021, he made numerous unauthorized withdrawals totaling over $191,000 from ATM machines at Delta Downs Racetrack in Vinton, Louisiana, and various banks around Beaumont, Texas.
The case was investigated by the FBI's Beaumont field office and the Beaumont Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Reynaldo P. Morin.