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Published: 11 September 2019 11 September 2019

Albuquerque, NM – Today, Attorney General Hector Balderas announced that Edward Boysel, who fraudulently operated a concealed firearms training business while failing to report his income and unlawfully receiving state benefits, will be spending four years in the Department of Corrections. 

“Today justice was served on an individual who took public assistance benefits from vulnerable New Mexicans,” said Attorney General Hector Balderas. “When individuals falsify information in order to obtain benefits that many people depend on to survive, my office will hold them accountable.”

On January 31, 2019, Boysel pled guilty to five felony counts, including Money Laundering, Tax Fraud, Medicaid Fraud, Falsification of Documents, and Failing to Disclose Facts to Obtain Public Assistance. As a condition of his plea he faced between one and four years of incarceration. 

Boysel was sentenced to four years in the New Mexico Department of Corrections followed by five years of supervised probation, and was ordered to pay restitution totaling nearly $140,000 to various State agencies as a condition of his probation and parole.