For this, he was paid about $1 million.
Prosecutors say he also shuffled vehicle
identification numbers between the
generators. And in 2018, after investigators
served search warrants on the company,
they say he went to a company warehouse in
Nevada, destroyed at least 1,000 identification
stickers and removed another 200 stickers
from generators.
His sentencing comes a week after company
co-owner Jeff Carpoff was sentenced to 30
years in prison and ordered to pay $790.6
million in restitution.
Carpoff and his wife, who also has pleaded
guilty, used the money to buy and invest in
32 properties, more than 150 luxury cars, a
subscription to a private jet service, a semipro
baseball team, a NASCAR racecar sponsorship
and a suite at the new Las Vegas Raiders stadium.
Four others have also pleaded guilty to related
offenses and are awaiting sentencing.
Prosecutors wouldn’t comment on the chances
that Bayliss will pay all or even part of the
massive restitution.
But court documents say he owes it jointly with
Carpoff. The government already has seized more
than $120 million worth of Carpoff ’s possessions
to be used in partial restitution to victims.
So while Bayliss is accountable for the
restitution until it’s paid off, others in the case
also are accountable.