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Investment Advisor Indicted
April 9, 2009
Tim Botos
A local broker dealer is accused of using an assumed identity in operating his financial
Joe Bonanno or Mr. Hyde?
April 18, 2009
Tim Botos
If Timothy Welland Hyde is good at one thing, it's selling. With slick, tightly cropped
Financial adviser jailed in Massachusetts
April 27, 2009
Tim Botos
Canton Repository
Police: Man stole dead child’s name
April 25, 2009
Darcie Loreno
Tribune Chronicle
Prosecutors: Businessman Joseph Dino Bonanno, 48, hid criminal past by using
dead infant's identity
June 5, 2009
Peter Krouse
The Plain Dealer
Members of U.S. House Financial Services Committee snapped up or dumped
bank stocks as bottom fell out of market
June 25, 2009
Stephen Koff and Sabrina Eaton
The Plain Dealer
Former financial adviser Joseph Bonanno headed to prison for identity theft
August 6, 2009
Tim Botos
The Canton Repository
Former Jackson Twp. Financial Adviser Headed to Prison
April 19, 2010
Tim Botos
The Canton Repository
CLEVELAND - The man who lived as Timothy Hyde was sent to prison Monday under his real name - Joseph D.
Bonanno.
No matter the name, his life is now in a shambles, according to his family, his attorney, and Bonanno himself,
who all spoke during a sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court on Monday.
AKRON — With black hair containing only wisps of gray, and tight-skinned facial features behind his eyeglasses,
Joseph D. Bonanno could pass for a man in his early 30s.
The 48-year-old had played the role of a younger man, named Timothy W. Hyde, for more than a decade — until
authorities caught on.
WASHINGTON -- As financial markets tumbled and the government worked to stave off panic by pumping billions
of dollars into banks last fall, several members of Congress who oversee the banking industry were grabbing up or
dumping bank stocks.
He was born Joseph Dino Bonanno 48 years ago, but for the past 17 years, he has gone by the name Timothy
Hyde.
That includes the eight years he ran Hyde Financial Investments in Canton, dispensing advice and trading
securities on behalf of clients.
A Jackson Township man, who lived under an assumed identity for 18 years, is in a Massachusetts jail.
The man known locally as Timothy Welland Hyde, a financial adviser, had been indicted by a federal grand jury
three weeks ago. He was to appear in U.S. District Court in Akron on Wednesday, to be formally charged wit
wire fraud and making false statements.
NILES - Robert Bonanno of Niles said he hasn't had regular contact with his 47-year-old son, Joseph, for years.
Terry Hyde of Farmdale lost his son, Timothy Welland, just days after his birth in 1976.
Federal prosecutors say a former Niles man has been living under both names for years after a run-in with the law
back in 1988. He faces federal charges of wire fraud and filing false statements about his identity as a stockbroker
and investment adviser in Canton.
black hair and round dark eyes, a voice for radio and a warm smile, he welcomed clients to his financial advising
business in Jackson Township. For a variety of fees and commissions, he and employees arranged client
investments in stocks and securities. By all appearances, Hyde Financial was a success. It was located in Suite
302 on the third floor of one of the area’s premier office buildings, known as the Belden Village glass tower.
advising business. Joseph D. Bonanno of Jackson Township, who portrayed himself as Timothy W. Hyde, is
charged with one count of wire fraud and two counts of making false statements. An indictment was filed
Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
