Dina Wein-Reis

Dina Wein-Reis (born 1964) is an American businesswoman and admitted con artist.
Personal life
Wein-Reis was born in Midwood, Brooklyn in 1964 to Vivian, a public high school teacher, and Shlomo "Solomon" Wein, who owned an apparel business. Wein-Reis has a brother, lawyer Hershel Wein. After graduating from Bnos Leah Prospect Park Yeshiva in 1981, she attended Brooklyn College, but did not graduate. There, she met her husband, David Ruiz, who later converted to Judaism and changed his name to Reis. She graduated from Empire State College in 1987. The Reises have three sons.
Fraud Conviction
In October of 2008, prosecutors claimed that for over a decade, Wein-Reis' company had tricked manufacturers into selling her merchandise at a low price. Then, she would ask an executive to send her a shipment of merchandise, and she promised access to lucrative markets through her "National Distribution Program," which did not actually exist. Diversion is not necessarily illegal (see Quality King v. L'anza), but in Wein-Reis' case, the diversion allegedly involved fraud.
In October 2008, she was arrested for conspiracy and wire fraud. The police took much of her personal property, as the search warrant authorized them to seize the "fruits of the crime."
On May 19, 2011, Wein-Reis pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In a reported plea deal with federal prosecutors, Wein-Reis agreed to pay $7 million in restitution to her victims and would serve approximately 31 months out of possible 5-year sentence in federal prison.
Dina Wein Reis was sentenced to 19 months in prison for corporate fraud on April 30, 2013. Reis swindled companies in Connecticut, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey and Kentucky out of at least $20 million.

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