For years, Sonic Plastics struggled to turn a profit but the financial situation of the Lindon business improved with the 2013 firing of general manager Bruce McKean Strong.
The reason, according to federal prosecutors, was that Strong had embezzled approximately $1 million by creating a company called Grand Design that purportedly supplied raw materials to Sonic at a discounted rate.
However, no one at Sonic ever saw plastic resin from Grand Design being delivered, and all efforts to find “Michael Reyes,” who Strong claimed was his source for the material, “have been a futile waste of time” — because, according to the U.