Louisville man sentenced to 21 months for defrauding elderly woman

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — A Kentucky man, known for designing some of the commonwealth’s wealthiest homes, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison last week.

According to the Department of Justice, 66-year-old Roy “Wayne” Jenkins was handed down his punishment by a federal judge in Louisville after defrauding an elderly victim out of hundreds of thousands of dollars between 2013 and 2018 in a bank fraud scheme. Jenkins gained access to the elderly victim’s property and bank accounts under the pretense of helping her son, who held Power of Attorney, manage her financial affairs when she was no longer able to do so.

The fraudulent transactions Jenkins engaged in during the scheme included making an unauthorized withdrawal of life insurance proceeds to which he was not entitled, forging checks to steal funds from the victim’s accounts and from a trust established for her benefit and making unauthorized online payments from the victim’s accounts to his personal credit card account.