Former RI Exec. who Renounced Citizenship to Avoid Child Support is Indicted

A former top executive at American Power Conversion has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of traveling in interstate and outside the country to evade paying more than $250,000 in child support.

U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced Friday that Christopher Carroll, 47, formerly of Jamestown, has been bouncing around the world with an Irish passport to evade paying child support for his three children, age 9, 11 and 14.

Court documents allege that Carroll, a former senior executive with APC, a subsidiary of Paris-based Schneider Electric, worked at APC’s West Kingston facility until May of 2012 when he relocated to Paris.

He was ordered by a Family Court judge to pay $6,000 per month and he stopped making the payments in January of 2013 — two years after the court ordered payments began.

He was ruled in contempt of court for failing to meet his child support obligations on June 17 of 2013 and now owes more than $250,000.

Meanwhile, court records show that he withdrew at least $369,329 from some of his “numerous investment accounts,” married another woman, renounced his U.S. citizenship and has been traveling abroad utilizing a Republic of Ireland passport. According to court documents, Carroll and his current wife identify themselves as being semi-retired on social media sites, and have stated that they have spent the past year traveling in Europe, Central and South America, Canada and the United States.

The maximum penalty for each count is two years in prison, a $250,000 fine, a year of supervised release, mandatory restitution and assessments.