Jonah Bennett reports: New figures show that the number of identification theft investigations collapsed by 30 percent in California after a program allowing illegal aliens to apply for driver’s licenses was implemented in 2015, according to a FOIA request obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Breitbart News reported in late January 2015 that the California Department of Motor Vehicles…
Category: ID Theft
Leader of $200M credit card fraud scheme sentenced
Tim Darragh reports: Tahir Lodhi led one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the U.S. Department of Justice, and Thursday was the day his bill came due. The Hicksville, N.Y. man was sentenced to more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud…
Ho Chi Minh City jails 7 for abetting $200 mln transnational credit card fraud
Thanh Nien News reports: A Ho Chi Minh City court Thursday sentenced a man to seven and half years in prison for trading personal information stolen from credit card users in Vietnam and other countries. Six henchmen of Van Tien Tu, 30, got jail terms of one and a half to four years, all for…
MI: Farmington Hills mother admits stealing private personal records
Kevin Dietz has an update on an identity theft fraud case that I’ve noted previously on this site. Now Markitta Washington has admitted to stealing patient information as part of the tax refund fraud scheme. Washington, who according to court records took a job at two hospitals — the DMC’s Harper Hospital in Detroit and Henry Ford Hospital in…
Ringleader of Saks ID theft scheme pleads guilty
Jonathan Stempel reports: The ringleader of a scheme in which four former Saks Fifth Avenue employees used stolen customer data to buy $430,000 of luxury goods from the retailer’s flagship Manhattan store, with plans to resell them on the black market, has pleaded guilty, prosecutors said. Tamara Williams, 38, of Queens, pleaded guilty to grand…
Ex-D.C. juvenile justice worker pleads guilty in $42 million tax-ID-theft ring
Spencer S. Hsu reports that at least 645 youth offenders had their identity information provided to a tax fraud ring by a juvenile justice worker: A former D.C. juvenile justice worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping steal at least $2 million in fraudulent federal income tax refunds by giving personal information about hundreds of youth offenders…