Member of consulting firm that coached Pomrenkes awaiting federal court sentencing

A member of a legal consulting firm that taught former BVU finance officer Stacey Pomrenke to pretend to be an alcoholic and planned the scheme with disgraced state judge Kurt Pomrenke is awaiting his federal sentence.

Documents from federal court in Connecticut say Tony Pham entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors last year on conspiracy and wire fraud charges. He reportedly counseled and coached countless others to fake alcohol and drug dependence to get into Bureau of Prisons rehab programs that let select inmates out earlier with successful treatment.

The Pomrenkes, who both served time in prison in connection to a 2016 fraud scheme involving several BVU executives and legal counsel, paid Pham’s company $7,500 one month before her first sentence and began plotting their scheme to fool the workers at a West Virginia prison where she showed up drunk just as the three had planned, the report said.

Pham remains out on bond, the documents said, after his lawyers told a federal judge last month to delay proceedings because of the pandemic.