Man Found GuiltyFailing To Pay Louisiana Child Support

usdoj.gov, Nov 29, 2006

Jaimie Edelkind, age 43, from Massachusetts was found guilty by a federal jury last week of willful nonpayment of child support, announced United States Attorney Donald W. Washington. The jury deliberated for three and a half hours before returning a guilty verdict.

The trial, which began Monday before United States District Judge Rebecca Doherty, is the result of investigations which began in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General. The Superior Court of Cobb County, state of Georgia, ordered Edelkind to pay child support in the amount of $1,400 per month commencing December 1, 1998. The Georgia state child support order was modified in July 2003 by Louisiana's 15th Judicial District Court Judge David Blanchet after the defendant did not comply with the Georgia order. Judge Blanchet ordered the defendant to pay the child support arrearage and set the child support at $1,537.09 per month. After the July 2003 hearing, Edelkind was indicted in Atlanta, Georgia for federal bank fraud charges to which he pleaded guilty. However, Edelkind failed to pay any of his child support obligation and issued fake certified checks and fake cashier's checks in an effort to act as if he was paying child support.

Records indicate that Edelkind filed bankruptcy in 1999, but in 2000 purchased a seaside mansion that once was the summer home of Joseph Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy. Evidence showed that he and his new family lived extravagantly. Read more at usdoj.gov