Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a New Jersey man with a fraud scheme that involved fake leases for office equipment and a case of identity theft using forged signatures of New York Mets officials.

Michael Conway, of Verona, N.J., was arrested on Wednesday morning and released on bond after being charged with charges of wire fraud and identity theft in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.

According to prosecutors, Mr. Conway ran a fraud scheme using his company, Choice Office Solutions, which buys equipment like printers and fax machines and leases it to universities, hospitals and sports franchises in the New York area.

Choice Office sought out investors to finance the purchase of the equipment. The backers included an unnamed hedge fund manager and an investment company based in Pennsylvania called De Lage Landen Financial Solutions.

But prosecutors said that while Mr. Conway had received more than $3 million from his investors, in many cases he had no agreement to lease equipment to his clients and in other cases exaggerated the terms.

Todd Rossman, an attorney representing Mr. Conway, declined to comment.

In one case, prosecutors said Mr. Conway had invented a deal with the Mets and set about forging agreements, which he used to collect investment money to make purchases. He had been doing business with the Mets but not for the amounts he was citing, the complaint said.

In one instance detailed in the complaint, Mr. Conway forged a letter, dated last March and on Mets letterhead, authorizing payments of up to $1 million and signed with the name “Jeffery Wilpon,” the chief operating officer of the Mets. Mr. Conway, however, had misspelled the name: The executive’s name is Jeffrey Wilpon.

Mr. Conway also forged the signature of another Mets official, Thomas Festa, a technology vice president who Mr. Conway also misidentified in the paperwork, the complaint said.

A Mets spokesman declined to comment on the case.

In another case, Mr. Conway provided an investor with a lease agreement between his company and Montclair State University in New Jersey, signed “Leonard Hughes.” Prosecutors said the real Mr. Hughes had said he had not ever heard of the company, though he had recalled meeting Mr. Conway some time back.

On Wednesday, a number listed for Choice Office Solutions had been disconnected.

A company website said the business had been in operation since 1997 and offered printing management, mailing systems and shipping.