Longtime Harford County manufacturing manager pleads guilty to $20 million kickback scheme

In 2012, Elliott Dennis Kleinman used his management position to execute a fraudulent billing scheme, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office. Wednesday, he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion, in connection with a kickback scheme that defrauded his employer of more than $20 million. Kleinman, 68, of Bel Air, was a longtime employee of a family-owned global business headquartered in New York that has manufacturing facilities in Belcamp and Abingdon.