A former financial planner was sentenced to two years in prison and three years of probation for stealing personal identity information of about 3,000 clients and using the information to open new accounts, make purchases and cash advances and reroute the clients’ mail. Andrew W. Myers, 33, a former financial planner at Northwestern Mutual and…
Category: ID Theft
Four Twin Cities men convicted in ID theft ring
Dan Browning reports: Jurors in St. Paul returned guilty verdicts Thursday against four participants in a wide-ranging identity fraud ring based in the Twin Cities that bilked about $2 million from banks and retailers across 14 states. The defendants were among 28 people charged in the conspiracy; their co-defendants have all pleaded guilty. Read more…
Coral Springs Police: Identity Theft Ring Busted
CBS in Miami reports that police have busted an ID theft ring that involved an employee of a Coral Springs Chili’s and others. On Tuesday Ames and other investigators showed the evidence recovered to CBS 4 News — a credit card making machine, a credit card skimmer, laptops, blank credit cards and pages and pages…
10 Greater Cleveland residents charged with bank fraud, identity theft
Donna J. Miller reports: Ten people from Greater Cleveland are accused of stealing a total of $207,000 from six banks in a scheme that involved an assistant bank manager and a salesman who supplied local businesses with cash registers and credit card machines. They were charged Friday with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft based…
OR: Former Key Bank manager sentenced to 30 mos. for fraud and identity theft
Here’s an update to a previously noted insider breach involving a manager at the Thurston branch of Key Bank: KVAL reports Randy Mainwaring was sentenced to 30 months in prison for bank fraud and identity theft.
Georgia Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Crimes
A tax return preparer from Macon, Ga., pleaded guilty Thursday to filing a false claim for tax refund, theft of government money and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue (IRS) announced. According to court documents, Willie C. Grant is a former tax return preparer who used many of his former clients’…