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Bill Hynes resigns as CEO of York's United Fiber & Data; more details on criminal charges
Liz Evans Scolforo, York DispatchPublished 12:15 p.m. ET Nov. 4, 2019 | Updated 5:40 p.m. ET Nov. 4, 2019

Bill Hynes, the CEO of York City companies Think Loud Development LLC and United Fiber & Data, has resigned as CEO of UFD, according to a company statement.

Andrew Paxton, president and general counsel of UFD, issued an email on Monday, Nov. 4, announcing that Hynes has resigned "for personal reasons, effective immediately."

UFD's board of directors has accepted the resignation and supports Hynes' decision to step down, according to the statement released by Paxton. It appears Hynes remains CEO of Think Loud. Calls there were not returned Monday.

Court documents reveal more details about the stalking, burglary, assault and fraud allegations made by state police against Hynes.

Hynes is a felon who made news this summer when York County Sheriff Rich Keuerleber allowed him to park in the secure garage under the York County Judicial Center to attend a protection from abuse hearing in which Hynes was the defendant.

That's the garage where judges and other elected county officials park, including the judge who presided over Hynes' PFA case.

The 47-year-old Hynes, of the 200 block of York Street, posted $50,000 bail in one case and has $25,000 unsecured bail for his second related case, in which police have charged him with indirect criminal contempt for allegedly violating the terms of the three-year PFA against him.

Hynes was released from prison Monday, Nov. 4, according to prison records. He had been in York County Prison since Friday, Nov. 1, because he had to meet with a probation officer before being released, York County spokesman Mark Walters said.

Special treatment?

Keuerleber previously said that Hynes — who through Think Loud donated the money for the sheriff's office to buy K-9 Dargo — received no special treatment.

The listed victim in the PFA case is Hynes' ex-girlfriend, who also is his former employee.

Defense attorney Chris Ferro, who represents Hynes, has said he cannot yet discuss the criminal allegations against his client because he hasn't had an opportunity to review charging documents.

According to those documents, state police investigators began looking into Hynes in July, after speaking with the woman about allegations she had made in her petition for a PFA against Hynes.

The woman told police she began working at United Fiber & Data, 210 York St., in August 2014 and that she and Hynes became intimately involved around November 2014, documents state.

In June 2017, the woman bought a house in Spring Garden Township for $205,000 and was given a $55,000 gift from Hynes — through a third company Hynes is involved with at 210 York St., Think Loud Investments LLC — for a down payment and closing costs, according to state police.

Fraud allegations:
Charging documents indicate the money was documented as a gift that did not need to be repaid and that Hynes and the woman signed a note stating as much.

"The letter states that the company has previously done this for other employees," documents state.

But in May 2019, when the woman tried to rent out the house, she received a notice from Hynes that in June 2017 he had taken a second mortgage on the house for $60,000, according to police.

The woman's signature is on the second-mortgage form, as is the signature and notary seal of Hynes' secretary, police said. Hynes' alleged victim told police she thinks Hynes copied her signature from another document and pasted it into the second-mortgage form, charging documents allege.

His secretary told investigators she didn't think the woman's "signature" on the second-mortgage document was made by her and that the secretary's notary log — which state law requires her to keep — had no entry for the document in question, police allege. The secretary said she's meticulous about recording all notary transactions and doesn't believe she's missed an entry.

She told police she keeps her notary seal in a desk drawer that she locks at night but keeps unlocked during the day, according to police.

The secretary said that on July 29, Hynes told her she needed to testify at his PFA hearing that she notarized the second-mortgage document, police allege.

Stalking charge:

Court documents allege Hynes illegally attached a tracking device to the car of his ex-girlfriend/ex-employee, which was found Jan. 28 of this year by service technicians doing work on her car.

The woman told investigators she broke up with Hynes and told him she was resigning in June 2018, documents state.

Using the serial number of the BrickHouse 4G GPS TrackPort, which was turned over to police by the woman's PFA attorney, investigators tracked the device to Hynes and learned it recorded tracking data for the vehicle's movements from April 26, 2018, to Jan. 29 of this year, charging documents allege.

There was a monthly plan associated with the tracker, according to documents.

Assault allegation:

Charging documents also allege that when the woman told Hynes in June 2018 that she was breaking up with him and quitting her job, they were in her home and that Hynes took her cellphone and threw it, kicked a Styrofoam cooler, then picked up an unidentified object and threw it at the woman.

The woman ran downstairs toward her front door, yelling for Hynes to get out, police said.

"Hynes ran after her and caught up with her at the entry way to the residence," documents allege. "He grabbed the back of her neck and pushed her face first into a wall multiple times. She was then able to open the door and pushed him out of the residence."

About midnight July 5, 2018, the woman was awakened by the Nest security app on her cellphone, and a Nest camera showed Hynes walking upstairs, police said, adding he began yelling for the woman.

Camera deactivated?

"As he was walking up the stairs, the camera went blank," documents state. "Hynes (later) admitted to her that the camera stopped working because he had a device called a 'scrammer' that would have disconnected her wifi."

The woman told investigators that by that time, they were broken up, he shouldn't have had a key to her home and that he wasn't authorized to be there, police said. She also said she locked her doors before going to bed.

"She stayed quiet at first, but when he got to her bedroom door, she told him to go away and that he was scaring her," charging documents state. "The (bedroom) door was locked. She retreated to her bedroom en suite ... (where) she heard him force his way into the bedroom."

She then yelled that she'd called police, which wasn't true, but which caused Hynes to curse at her and leave the home, police allege.

'I need to be humbled':

The woman's mother later told police that while she was having work done at her daughter's home, Hynes came over and fixed the damaged bedroom door, police said.

Records from the mother's cellphone show Hynes agreeing to fix the roughly $300 in damage and saying, "It would be therapeutic for me. I need to be humbled," according to charging documents.

One of the woman's neighbors told police she remembers a man's angry, yelling voice coming from the home and believes that was on the same date as the alleged burglary, documents state.

Cyber harassment?

The three-year PFA against Hynes, granted on July 29, forbids him from having any contact with his ex and also forbids him from making remarks about her on social media, police said.

Police allege someone on Facebook using the name "Jon Hoch" posted comments about the woman under a link to a news article about the PFA.

"The comment related personal details about the (woman) and her family," charging documents allege.

Investigators found a number of posts and comments on Facebook from the "Jon Hoch" profile, which used a photo of a Colorado man whose name isn't Jon Hoch, according to police.

Police learned the comments made by the "Jon Hoch" profile came from a Think Loud computer IP address, documents state, and that the account had searched for the woman's name more than a hundred times between January and August of this year, documents state. The profile also searched "numerous times" for people associated with her, police said.

The "Jon Hoch" profile also sent the woman a friend request, documents allege.

The charges:

Hynes was arraigned Friday on felony charges of burglary, criminal trespass, theft by deception, forgery and tampering with public records.

He also is charged with the misdemeanors of stalking, simple assault, harassment and record-tampering, plus the summary offenses of harassment and criminal mischief. Pennsylvania's crime code can have different gradings for the same criminal charge, depending on the circumstances of the alleged crime.

Hynes is a felon, having been found guilty of the third-degree felony of theft by deception in Northampton County on Sept. 15, 2010, according to court records.

Ferro has called the PFA allegations baseless and without "evidentiary support."


'Dereliction of duty':

The York County Commissioners on July 23 issued a statement saying Keuerleber was derelict in his duties for allowing Hynes to park in the judicial center's secure underground garage July 15 to attend a PFA hearing.

"The York County Commissioners have completed their investigation regarding a breach of security which occurred at the Judicial Center on Monday, July 15, 2019. The Commissioners have concluded, as a result of their investigation that there was a dereliction of duty by the Sheriff which resulted in a security breach. The breach allowed a defendant with an active Ex Parte Protection from Abuse Order against him to park in a secure area. By admission of the Sheriff, the formal security protocols were not followed."

— Reach senior crime reporter Liz Evans Scolforo at levans@yorkdispatch.com or on Twitter at @LizScolforoYD.

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/cri...ceo/4154592002/

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Not entirely Bill Hynes related, but the Sheriff who let Bill Hynes use the back entrance to the courthouse was re-elected for a fourth term in office.

York County election results confirm sheriff won a fourth term in contentious race
Staff report
Published 10:24 a.m. ET Nov. 7, 2019 | Updated 10:48 a.m. ET Nov. 7, 2019

York County Sheriff Richard Keuerleber has defeated Shane Becker to secure a fourth term in office.

Keuerleber, 59, of Dover Township, who took office in 2008, touted his dedication and experience in the campaign. He generated controversy over his decision to give preferential treatment to Bill Hynes, founder and former CEO of United Fiber & Data, before a temporary protection-from-abuse order hearing.

Hynes, 47, of York, who’s a convicted felon, was later arrested on charges of burglary, criminal trespass, theft and related offenses.

The sheriff is elected to four-year terms. The position is set to pay $84,345.50 in 2020.

Meanwhile, Becker, 56, of Spring Garden Township, who worked in the York County Sheriff’s Office from 2014 to 2018, cast himself as a candidate for change.

The municipal election was marred by problems with the new, paper ballot voting machines in York County.

With 159 of 159 precincts reporting, Keuerleber won by 9,735 votes, according to unofficial election results from the York County Department of Elections and Voter Registration.

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/politics/ele...ner/2517124001/

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Yea, I haven't read anywhere yet that he's not still the CEO of Think Loud. Have no idea what they are thinking with that!

Bill Hynes resigns as CEO of York's United Fiber & Data; more details on criminal charges


https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/cri...ceo/4154592002/

This post has been edited by Bremang: Nov 21 2019, 3:34 am

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UFD racing just posted a 10 minute video of Bill Hynes racing at the Gold Cosst 500 SST race from October 2019.

https://www.facebook.com/UFDRacing/videos/1625035247621143/

Will Bill be permitted into Australia again with these charges?

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United Fiber & Data in York lost at least $25 million between 2015 and 2018, reports show
Dylan Segelbaum, York Daily Record Published 3:18 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2019 | Updated 3:37 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2019

Andrew Paxton, president and general counsel of United Fiber & Data, said current sales projections show the company will be profitable in 2020.

United Fiber & Data, a telecommunications startup in York that’s associated with members of the rock band Live, reported to public utility regulators that it lost at least $25.93 million from 2015 to 2018.

The information comes from annual reports that the business filed with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. The filings provide the most detailed look yet into the finances of the company, which has projected that its network would lead to the creation of 400 jobs and $2 billion in state tax revenue in 30 years.

The firm has stated that it recently completed its 340-mile fiber optic line that connects New York City to Ashburn, Virginia.

In a statement, Doug Schultz, chief financial officer for United Fiber & Data, said the business spent “significant funds” to complete the fiber network and lay the groundwork for future expansion. The company, he said, incurred additional expenses due to delays in construction.

Schultz said revenue continues to increase. The business anticipates that increased cash flows will cover operational expenses in the near future.

“We fully anticipated that this would be a really intensive construction project, which is really why nobody else has done this in the recent past,” said Andrew Paxton, president and general counsel of United Fiber & Data. “We believe that the current sales projections will result in profitability in 2020.”

The 2017 annual report is identical to the 2016 annual report. When the York Daily Record/Sunday News brought that to the attention of company executives, they said it was an error. The net figures were nearly the same, they said, and the report will be amended and refiled.

If the York Daily Record included numbers from the 2017 annual report in its analysis, the losses could be as high as $30.38 million.

Unlike Pennsylvania, New Jersey requires the company to report financial information about its nationwide operations.

Michael Black, chairman of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of York, said United Fiber & Data has made its first two payments for the old York County Prison, which the company plans to rehab and make part of a data center.

The second payment, he said, was hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“They paid us in full and on time,” Black said.

In 2014, the redevelopment authority initiated eminent domain proceedings to take the old jail, which is near PeoplesBank Park in York.

The Board of Viewers determined that fair market value was $65,000, awarding $4,000 for attorney fees. But a York County jury took less than 30 minutes to find that the site was worth $1.25 million — a judgment later upheld on appeal.

In August, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission moved 3-2 to tentatively cancel United Fiber & Data’s certificate to provide services in the state. The company reported that the decision won’t affect its business.

Then, three months later, the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Bill Hynes, founder and CEO of United Fiber & Data, on charges including burglary, criminal trespass and theft. He later resigned, citing personal reasons.

The company has stated that it will continue forward with its current executive team.

Contact Dylan Segelbaum at 717-771-2102.

Read the reports with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities:

https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?ur...-to-the-New.pdf

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/watchdog/201...ies/4384502002/

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UFD Racing is still using Bill Hynes's name in their promotional work.

Here is a Facebook post from today:
https://www.facebook.com/UFDRacing/photos/a...99857650031334/

It features the #57 Hynes truck with his name on it as well.

Happy Christmas indeed.

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Bill Hynes is gong to trial.

Ex-York CEO Bill Hynes heading to trial on charges including burglary, trespass and theft
Dylan Segelbaum, York Daily RecordPublished 11:11 a.m. ET Dec. 19, 2019

Hynes, 47, of York, appeared on Thursday before District Judge Jennifer J.P. Clancy, where he stipulated to the criminal complaint against him for the purpose of his preliminary hearing.

Bill Hynes, founder and former CEO of United Fiber & Data, is heading toward trial on charges that he assaulted and stalked a former employee, broke into her home and took out a fraudulent second mortgage on the house.

Hynes, 47, of York, appeared on Thursday before District Judge Jennifer J.P. Clancy, where he stipulated to the criminal complaint against him for the purpose of his preliminary hearing. The move is not an admission of guilt.

“Today was a strategic decision a few weeks in the making,” said Chris Ferro, Hynes’ attorney, outside the courtroom. “We are anxious to get this case down to the Court of Common Pleas so we can get discovery and continue to take steps to defend Bill against these allegations.”



The Pennsylvania State Police say Hynes was in an intimate relationship with an employee, 26, from 2014 to 2018.

They got into an argument at her home in Spring Garden Township when she told him that she wanted to leave. Then, on July 4, 2018, Hynes came over to the woman’s house again, police said, and grabbed her neck and pushed her face-first into a wall multiple times.

Hynes entered her home once more at midnight, police said.

On Jan. 28, 2019, Mercedes-Benz of Lancaster employees discovered a GPS tracker in the woman’s car. Law enforcement tied the device to Hynes, who investigators allege also took out a second mortgage on her home for $60,000.

Hynes left District Court 19-2-05 in Spring Garden Township Thursday without speaking to reporters. He’s charged with burglary, criminal trespass, theft and related offenses.

Following his arrest, Hynes resigned from his position at United Fiber & Data, citing personal reasons. It’s unclear whether he remains CEO of Think Loud Development LLC. Both companies are associated with members of the rock band Live.

During the summer, York County Sheriff Richard Keuerleber allowed Hynes, who’s a convicted felon, to bypass normal security protocol before a temporary protection-from-abuse order hearing and park in a secure area of the York County Judicial Center.

The York County Board of Commissioners issued a statement describing what happened as a “dereliction of duty” that resulted in a security breach.

Later, Hynes agreed to a three-year final protection-from-abuse order without an admission of wrongdoing or liability.

Law enforcement alleges that he used a fake Facebook profile to post comments about the woman. Hynes is set to appear for a violation hearing on March 20, 2020, according to court records.

Hynes is free on $50,000 bail, according to court records. He’s set to be formally arraigned on Jan. 24, 2020.

Contact Dylan Segelbaum at 717-771-2102.

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2019/1...ges/2636303001/

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Trial ahead for York City CEO Bill Hynes, accused of stalking, burglary
Liz Evans Scolforo, York Dispatch
Published 4:58 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2019 | Updated 9:41 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2019

York City businessman Bill Hynes is now facing trial in York County Court on charges that include stalking, burglary, forgery and tampering with public records.

Hynes, CEO of Think Loud Development LLC and the former CEO of United Fiber & Data, appeared before District Judge Jennifer Clancy for his preliminary hearing on Thursday, Dec. 19.

Through defense attorney Chris Ferro, Hynes stipulated to the allegations against him in charging documents, meaning no witnesses were needed for the case to move forward to trial. The stipulation was for Thursday's hearing only.

At the close of the brief hearing, Clancy set Hynes' formal court arraignment for Jan. 24.

"Today was a strategic decision a few weeks in the making," Ferro said, adding that the stipulation was not an admission of guilt "in any way, shape or form."

"We are anxious to get this case down to the Court of Common Pleas so we can get discovery and continue to take steps to defend Bill against these allegations," Ferro said.

In the news: Hynes is a felon who made news this past summer when York County Sheriff Rich Keuerleber allowed him to park in the secure garage under the York County Judicial Center to attend a protection from abuse hearing in which Hynes was the defendant.

That's the garage where judges and other elected county officials park, including the judge who presided over Hynes' PFA case.

The listed victim in the PFA case is Hynes' ex-girlfriend, who also is his former employee.

According to those documents, state police investigators began looking into Hynes in July, after speaking with the woman about allegations she had made in her petition for a PFA against Hynes.

The woman told police she began working at United Fiber & Data, 210 York St., in August 2014 and that she and Hynes became intimately involved around November 2014, documents state.

In June 2017, the woman bought a house in Spring Garden Township for $205,000 and was given a $55,000 gift from Hynes — through a third company Hynes is involved with at 210 York St., Think Loud Investments LLC — for a down payment and closing costs, according to state police.

Fraud allegations: Charging documents indicate the money was documented as a gift that did not need to be repaid and that Hynes and the woman signed a note stating as much.

"The letter states that the company has previously done this for other employees," documents state.

But in May 2019, when the woman tried to rent out the house, she received a notice that in June 2017 Hynes had taken a second mortgage on the house for $60,000, according to police.

The woman's signature is on the second-mortgage form, as is the signature and notary seal of Hynes' secretary, police said. Hynes' alleged victim told police she thinks Hynes copied her signature from another document and pasted it into the second-mortgage form, charging documents allege.

His secretary told investigators that her notary log — which state law requires her to keep — had no entry for the document in question, police allege. The secretary said she's meticulous about recording all notary transactions and doesn't believe she's missed an entry.

She told police she keeps her notary seal in a desk drawer that she locks at night but keeps unlocked during the day, according to police.

The secretary said that on July 29, Hynes told her she needed to testify at his PFA hearing that she notarized the second-mortgage document, police allege.

Stalking charge: Court documents allege Hynes illegally attached a tracking device to the car of his ex-girlfriend/ex-employee, which was found Jan. 28 of this year by service technicians doing work on her car.

The woman told investigators she broke up with Hynes and told him she was resigning in June 2018, documents state.

Investigators tracked the GPS device to Hynes and learned it recorded tracking data for the vehicle's movements from April 26, 2018, to Jan. 29 of this year, charging documents allege.

There was a monthly plan associated with the tracker, according to documents.

Assault allegation: Charging documents also allege that when the woman told Hynes in June 2018 that she was breaking up with him and quitting her job, they were in her home and that Hynes took her cellphone and threw it, kicked a Styrofoam cooler, then picked up an unidentified object and threw it at the woman.

The woman ran downstairs toward her front door, yelling for Hynes to get out, police said.

"Hynes ran after her and caught up with her at the entry way to the residence," documents allege. "He grabbed the back of her neck and pushed her face first into a wall multiple times. She was then able to open the door and pushed him out of the residence."

About midnight July 5, 2018, the woman was awakened by the Nest security app on her cellphone, and a Nest camera showed Hynes walking upstairs, police said, adding he began yelling for the woman.

Camera deactivated? "As he was walking up the stairs, the camera went blank," documents state. "Hynes (later) admitted to her that the camera stopped working because he had a device called a 'scrammer' that would have disconnected her wifi."

The woman told investigators that by that time, they were broken up, he shouldn't have had a key to her home and he wasn't authorized to be there, police said. She also said she locked her doors before going to bed.

"She stayed quiet at first, but when he got to her bedroom door, she told him to go away and that he was scaring her," charging documents state. "The (bedroom) door was locked. She retreated to her bedroom en suite ... (where) she heard him force his way into the bedroom."

She then yelled that she'd called police, which wasn't true, but which caused Hynes to curse at her and leave the home, police allege.

Cyber harassment? The three-year PFA against Hynes, granted on July 29, forbids him from having any contact with his ex and also forbids him from making remarks about her on social media, police said.

Police allege someone on Facebook using the name "Jon Hoch" posted comments about the woman under a link to a news article about the PFA.

"The comment related personal details about the (woman) and her family," charging documents allege.

Investigators found a number of posts and comments on Facebook from the "Jon Hoch" profile, which used a photo of a Colorado man whose name isn't Jon Hoch, according to police.

Police learned the comments made by the "Jon Hoch" profile came from a Think Loud computer IP address, documents state, and that the account had searched for the woman's name more than a hundred times between January and August of this year, documents state. The profile also searched "numerous times" for people associated with her, police said.

The "Jon Hoch" profile also sent the woman a friend request, documents allege.

The charges: Hynes, 47, of the 200 block of York Street in York City, remains free on bail, charged with the felonies of burglary, criminal trespass, theft by deception, forgery and tampering with public records.

He also is charged with the misdemeanors of stalking, simple assault, harassment and record-tampering, plus the summary offenses of harassment and criminal mischief. Pennsylvania's crime code can have different gradings for the same criminal charge, depending on the circumstances of the alleged crime.

He also is charged with indirect criminal contempt for allegedly violating the terms of the three-year protection from abuse order against him.

Hynes is a felon, having been found guilty of the third-degree felony of theft by deception in Northampton County on Sept. 15, 2010, according to court records.

— Reach senior crime reporter Liz Evans Scolforo at levans@yorkdispatch.com or on Twitter at @LizScolforoYD.

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/cri...ary/2697987001/

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Since nobody posting in this thread has any first hand information on this situation and there will be a trial shortly, I am closing this thread. Please do not start any other threads on this topic. Thanks.

Edit:
I have decided to temporarily hide all the comments in this thread (apart from the initial news report). There will be a trial shortly and it may involve a jury. I would not want this thread to be responsible for Bill not receiving a fair hearing. This is what everybody is entitled to. Once the law has taken its course I will consider reopening this thread. Thanks again for understanding.

This post has been edited by dangum: Dec 30 2019, 9:03 am

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Detailed info about the charges: https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/...wNLVrM5ng%3d%3d


Link to the original case: https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/...B6ljk6Csg%3d%3d

Link to the transferred case: https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/...wNLVrM5ng%3d%3d

A pre-trial conference is scheduled for April 7.

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Postponed until 29th of June 2020

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/...wNLVrM5ng%3d%3d

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October 21, 2020 is the next date.

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/...fyUNNWYqw%3d%3d

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Prosecutors can bring up 'prior bad acts' in case against former York CEO, judge rules

Common Pleas Judge Harry M. Ness issued the ruling in the case against Bill Hynes, founder and former CEO of United Fiber & Data in York.
Dylan Segelbaum

York Daily Record
Published: 4:36pm E.T. Jul 10, 2020

Prosecutors can introduce evidence at trial about additional allegations of domestic violence that did not result in criminal charges against Bill Hynes, founder and former CEO of United Fiber & Data, a York County judge has ruled.

The decision from Common Pleas Judge Harry M. Ness clears the way for the York County District Attorney’s Office to bring up two “prior bad acts” that prosecutors allege took place in Las Vegas and Fiji. The order was filed on Monday.

Hynes, 48, of York, is charged with burglary, criminal trespass, forgery and related offenses.

The Pennsylvania State Police say Hynes assaulted and stalked a former employee, 26, with whom he had been in an intimate relationship. He’s also accused of taking out a fraudulent second mortgage on her home and violating a temporary protection-from-abuse order.

During a hearing on June 29, Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Hamme said the additional allegations should be admissible because they show that Hynes acted with a common scheme.

Hamme said the prosecution alleges that Hynes got into an argument and choked and strangled the woman in summer 2017 in Las Vegas.

In September 2018, Hamme said, the commonwealth contends that Hynes pinned the woman to the ground and struck and choked her in Fiji.

Chris Ferro, Hynes’ attorney, argued against the request to introduce the additional allegations, stating that they would confuse jurors and simply make them conclude that his client was a “bad guy.”

Outside the courtroom, Hynes declined to be interviewed.

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2020/0...nes/5415036002/

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Jury trial - scheduled for March 2021
https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/...wNLVrM5ng%3d%3d

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Former UFD CEO Bill Hynes pleads no contest to 5 of 13 charges in abuse case
Jack Panyard
York Daily Record
Published 4:15pm September 27, 2022

Bill Hynes, former CEO of the York-based telecommunications company United Fiber and Data, pleaded no contest Tuesday to five counts and to a violation of a protection from abuse order.

Hynes was sentenced to three years of probation, six months of which will be under house arrest.

Hynes faced 13 charges for a variety of incidents with his ex-girlfriend, including assault, burglary, forgery, trespassing and stalking her. He pleaded no contest to stalking, simple assault, criminal trespassing and two counts of forgery. The remaining charges were dropped.

He also pleaded no contest to the violation of a protection from abuse order against the victim, extending the order an additional three years from the three years since it was signed.

Hynes was originally set for a jury trial on Sept. 12 before entering a plea with lawyer Heidi Eakin of Camp Hill. Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Hamme represented the York County District Attorney's Office before Common Pleas Judge Harry M. Ness.

The victim was present at the plea and offered an impact statement, thanking God for her survival.

"I didn’t suffer from a paranoia of living the trauma because when someone is stalking you it’s always there," she said. "I moved to another state to try to get away from this person only to see them following me on the highway."

She said she has been diagnosed with PTSD and has gone to therapy but still has nightmares.

"You could not snuff out my light, although you tried to, and I truly believe it’s going to shine brighter than ever before because of my faith," the victim said. "You might think you got away with it, and you might think you might have won, but you should be fearful of what happens if you choose to remain the same person you are."

Eakin emphasized how complex the case has been. "This is obviously a complicated case on both sides, and Mr. Hynes simply wants to move forward," she said.

The charges:Ex-York CEO Bill Hynes heading to trial on charges including burglary, trespass and theft

More on Hynes:Here’s what we know about United Fiber & Data founder and former CEO Bill Hynes

Hynes served as CEO of UFD from 2013 to 2019, when he stepped down after the charges were filed. The company, which he started with three former members of the multi-platinum rock band Live, has been embroiled in lawsuits over alleged misuse of money and investments.

According to police reports, in 2014 Hynes hired and began a relationship with his then-girlfriend. In 2017, she bought a house in Spring Garden Township in part with money gifted to her by Hynes.

Police reports say that on July 4, 2018, she told him she wanted out of the relationship. Hynes allegedly reacted violently, breaking her cellphone, other personal affects around her house, and "pushed her head into a wall, face first, multiple times."

Police alleged that the next day, Hynes trespassed into her home, disabling her security cameras with a Wi-Fi scrambler. Hynes broke into her bedroom as she retreated into her back suite in her bedroom. She told him she called the police, and Hynes left.

Police reports say the incident was corroborated by neighbors and the victim's mother. The mother coordinated with Hynes to have him come back and fix the door a month and a half later.

The report also states in January of 2019, mechanics found a tracker on the victim's car, which had been monitoring her since the previous summer. The tracker was registered to Hynes. It also alleges Hynes took a $60,000 second mortgage on the victim's house as well, forging her signature on the documentation.

Protection from abuse:York CEO tied to rock band Live served with temporary protection-from-abuse order

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Hynes also has a three-year protection from abuse order against him for the alleged assault of the victim. Hynes and then-lawyer Chris Ferro agreed to a three year PFA without an admission of guilt in July of 2019.

Hynes was accused of breaking the PFA when he began posting about the victim on Facebook under the name Jon Hoch. State police reported they discovered the account was fake and believe Hynes created it to post about his companies and the victim.

At the conclusion of the sentencing, Ness told the victim she should not have to worry about Hynes for at least the next three years. He then addressed Hynes.

"You've been given all the leniency in this case you should have ever gotten. Don't cross this line."

Jack Panyard is a reporter at the York Daily Record, part of the USA TODAY Network. Contact him at jpanyard@ydr.com, 717-850-5935 or on Twitter @JackPanyard.

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