Tony Ream spent about $1.6 million on his wedding, luxury trips abroad and a restaurant in South Carolina that failed. The money was not his. A federal judge on Long Island sentenced Ream, 35, to 30 months in prison on September 24 for taking it from his employer’s customer refund accounts, some of them inactive.
Ream had been a credit supervisor at a health care products company in Melville, New York. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud a year earlier.
A refund that went to the wrong account
Ream, who lives in Greenville, South Carolina, joined the company’s credit department in 2019 and was later promoted to supervisor, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. From about October 2020 until November 2024, prosecutors say, he moved money out of customer refund accounts and into accounts he controlled…