Court denies compensation application after fraudster Timothy Leslie Schultz worked at Tamworth Telstra centre among other jobs

Timothy Leslie Schultz was sentenced to three years behind bars in October last year, with two non-parole, after pleading guilty to four fraud charges of dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception.

Court documents show Schultz conned what was then known as the Telstra Business Centre Tamworth by submitting a false resume in September 2019.

He was paid more than $6000 for his work before the fraud was discovered and he was fired the next month.

The documents reveal Schultz had also claimed to be an electrical engineer and had taken on the role of electrical process controller with the contractor for Walgett Shire Council's town water supply.

He was paid almost $92,000 before the contractor, LRE Services, found out Schultz didn't have the qualifications and let him go.

LRE Services lost its contract with Walgett Shire Council over the bungle, costing it a loss of $600,000 per year, according to the court documents.

Schultz scammed in other parts of the state too.

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He worked for a university for about six months in early 2018 - earning nearly $44,000 - after claiming he had tertiary qualifications and 18 years of IT experience.

He had later submitted a false resume and was employed in the Riverina area for about eight months before his workplace was contacted and told of Schultz's history and a previous surname he had gone by.

He was arrested at work in June 2020.

Judge Sean Grant refused to make the compensation orders that Crown prosecutors were after at the end of a hearing in Griffith District Court earlier this month.

He said he was not satisfied that the entities seeking compensation were "corporations" and there didn't appear to be applications from actual people.

He also said - and the Crown conceded - that there is nothing in the agreed facts that shows the work Schultz did was "performed to anything other than the standard required".

"As a result of the offender's conduct, he obtained a financial advantage," his judgement said.

"It does not automatically follow that this results in a corresponding loss on behalf of the entities.

"Put simply, the fraud induced the entities to employ him but they received economic value from the labour that he supplied to them under their employment contracts."

Judge Grant decided the aggrieved entities had not suffered loss from the scams.

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