A Plymouth man sent to prison for mortgage fraud in 2008 faces new charges of ripping off his former employer. For at least five years, investigators say that Christopher Erik Septon stole more than $1 million from Ellis Properties, the family-owned commercial real estate firm where he worked.

According to a federal indictment, Septon, 52, made more than $800,000 in fraudulent charges on a company credit card and directed the payments to card processing accounts that he controlled.

Septon allegedly falsified hundreds of transactions by putting the names of public agencies such as the Met Council, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Minneapolis Finance Department and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in the transaction memo lines. The agencies were not targets of the alleged fraud. In t

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