上个月，北卡罗来纳州的联邦陪审团被判犯了一个长期的个人保险柜，丹尼斯利昂，他们收到了欺诈的长期监狱。法院还订购了利昂及其共同被告将数百万美元偿还承包商和公共工程机构。利昂有权上诉，但刑事起诉是重要的，因为难以在这种民事诉讼中收集损害奖项。

在避免和延迟公民法院订购的支付时，对个人保险柜背后的相同狡猾持续存在也可以上班。拥有Pridex Constructs的承包商Chris Poindexter是无法收集在民事法院奖下的所有欠款的受害承包商的一个例子。他是2011年的低价投标人，在476,464美元的翠鸟，奥克拉。，雨水改善项目。在似乎有助于帮助Poindexter绑定工作，翠鸟的市长当时将PoIndexter推荐给一个介绍PoIndexter到Larry Wright的中间人，这是一位长期的Con艺术家，他于1992年被判处马里兰州监狱。

Wright apparently was still selling phony bonds to contractors almost 20 years later. When Poindexter contacted Wright in 2011, Wright secured a $69,000 payment from Poindexter for an “irrevocable trust instrument,” an old favorite for individual-surety-fraud con artists. The city subsequently rejected Wright’s trust instrument and, together with his forfeited $23,823 bid bond, Poindexter was out almost $100,000. Another contractor won the job during a rebidding.

翠鸟的前市长在与Pridex或Wright的交易中否认了任何不合适的人。2012年6月，Pridex起诉前市长，城市经理和拉里赖特，充电欺诈和侵权干扰。在PoIndexter的诉讼中，Wright表示，他没有记忆PoIndexter的要求退还他所支付的钱。在审判之前，地区法院向赖特发出违约判决;在试验下，Poindexter与城市和城市经理定居。陪审团在实际和惩罚性损害中授予PoIndexter共有500,000美元。前市长呼吁并简要赢得了新的审判，但高等法院重申了原来的判决。没有钱尚未改变手。

Civil lawsuit judgments are good, but they don’t do enough to make damaged parties whole, and that’s why legislative and contractual solutions are so important. One example of the former is the 2015 Defense Authorization, with its higher requirements for surety assets. An example of the latter is the new American Institute of Architects’ standard forms of agreement, which require that a surety be authorized in the proper jurisdiction. Such measures help because once individual surety fraud is committed, the damage isn’t easy to fix.