There’s a follow-up to a case previously reported on this site. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida: A former assistant band director was sentenced today to 61 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $129,321 for his participation…
Category: ID Theft
FL: Broward man with 8,000 stolen IDs sentenced to prison for fraud
Paula McMahon reports: A Broward County man who amassed 8,000 stolen identities while committing multiple frauds was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison Thursday, prosecutors said. Leonce Jeudy, 25, of Plantation, pleaded guilty to federal drug-dealing, fraud and identity theft charges earlier this year. Read more on Sun Sentinel. I really wish they’d…
California DMV worker indicted in ID theft probe
AP reports: A clerk at the California Department of Motor Vehicles and five other people have been indicted on charges involving the creation of new identities with Puerto Rican documents that were then used to get driver’s licenses, authorities said Wednesday. DMV clerk Tracy Lynette Jones pleaded not guilty on Monday in federal court in…
Mainstreet FCU reports fraud not linked to data breach of their system (Update1)
Tim Orem reports: A data breach compromised information belonging to about 300 members of the Lenexa, Kan.-based Mainstreet Federal Credit Union, according to President/CEO John Beverlin. Beverlin told CU Times hackers did not break into the credit union’s systems and that the fraudsters likely purchased members’ information somewhere online. Now the criminals are trying to capitalize on it, he…
Court rules for Coca-Cola identity theft victim on stolen laptops
Judy Greenwald reports: A Coca-Cola employee who was the victim of identity theft after company laptops were stolen did suffer actual harm as a result, and can pursue a putative class action lawsuit against the company, says a Pennsylvania federal court. Shane K. Enslin began working for a company that was eventually acquired by the…
Two Florida Residents Sentenced for Possessing Stolen Personal Identification Information
Two Miami-Dade County residents were sentenced to prison terms for their participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme based on information discovered while they were boarding a flight at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Phillip Collins, 29, of Miami Gardens, was sentenced to 25 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Godfrey…