Zachary R. Dowdy reports:
A Rockville Centre woman was sentenced Wednesday to serve 11/2 to 3 years in state prison for her role in a scheme that stole hundreds of people’s identities to file fraudulent tax returns that yielded refunds and to apply for credit cards under the victims’ names, authorities said.
Susan Pemberton, who is also known as Susan Williams, helped file more than 250 false New York State personal income tax returns in 30 states with the bogus identities that prosecutors said she gathered through fake Craigslist ads for jobs and apartments, officials said.
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