Former New York PR Executive Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud Charge

A former executive with Catalyst Public Relations and MWW Group LLC pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of wire fraud in the Southern District of New York.

Andrew Garson, who worked first with Catalyst and later with MWW, was accused of duping MWW into paying expenses owed to vendors for projects he ran at his prior firm and using his Catalyst corporate credit card to pay for personal expenses, including a luxury watch.

After he was terminated from MWW in late 2018, he allegedly lied about the circumstances of his separation from the firm when applying for unemployment insurance ...