Matthew D. Hutcheson, an Idaho-based trustee and fiduciary for a number of employer pension plans, was sentenced on Thursday to a jail term of 17 ½ years and ordered to pay his victims $5.3 million in restitution.
A federal jury in Boise on April 16 had convicted Hutcheson, 41, of Eagle, of 17 counts of wire fraud, according to the FBI's Salt Lake City Division. During the eight-day trial, the government presented evidence that beginning in 2010, Hutcheson perpetrated schemes to defraud the Tamarack Resort in Donnelly, Idaho, on behalf of a limited liability corporation he controlled, called Green Valley Holdings LLC.
The FBI arrested Hutcheson at his home on April 11, 2012.
The indictment states that Hutcheson was a trustee and fiduciary for the G Fiduciary Retirement Income Security Plan, National Retirement Security Plan 401(k) and the Retirement Security Plan and Trust. It accused him of perpetrating schemes to defraud the plans and misappropriate more than $5 million of plan assets.
According to the indictment, from January 2010 through December 2010, Hutcheson misappropriated approximately $2 million of G Fiduciary assets for his personal use. On 12 occasions, it alleged, Hutcheson directed the plan's record keeper to make wire transfers of plan assets from an account at Charles Schwab to bank accounts controlled by Hutcheson and to other bank accounts for his personal benefit.
