The Bradenton Herald reports: A former parole worker at Manatee County jail and two other people have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to commit stolen identity refund fraud in Manatee between 2012-13. According to court documents, Marcus Lowe, 32, of Tampa worked for Manatee County Parole Services Division at…
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32 members and associates of Long Beach Insane Crip street gang tied to $14.3 million ID theft and tax refund fraud scheme
LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced today the takedown of a Long Beach Crip street gang that operated an identity theft scheme to perpetrate tax fraud, stealing over $3.3 million and attempting to steal over $11 million via tax fraud. The operation resulted in 22 members of the Insane Crip street gang being…
Woman accused of stealing identities of coworkers, going shopping
Kate Jacobson reports that Elexes Thaddies, 24, was arrested and charged with stealing co-workers’ information to pay her bills and to go shopping with. There are at least 20 victims – most of whom were employees at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, where Thaddies worked. Read more on Sun Sentinel.
Former Assistant Band Director for Broward County School District Pled Guilty in Identity Theft Tax Fraud Scheme Involving Former Students’ Info
There’s a follow-up to a case first reported in May. A former assistant band director pled guilty for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving former Broward County students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII). Delvis Demaine Rogers, 27, of Hollywood, Florida, pled guilty to one count of possession of fifteen…
Former Oakland Accountant Sentenced To Over Four Years In Prison For Identity Theft Tax Fraud Scheme
OAKLAND – Robert Thomas Doyle was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $142,031 for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Doyle, 64, of Oakland, pleaded guilty on February 23, 2015. According to the plea agreement, during 2011, 2012, and 2013, Doyle implemented an identity theft and…
Former Fort Benning Hospital employee sentenced for role in tax refund fraud scheme.
There’s a follow-up to a case that I’ve been covering since February, 2014, when Tracy Mitchell, a former Fort Benning Hospital employee, was indicted for stealing service members’ identity information to use for a tax refund fraud scheme. A superseding indictment was subsequently filed in May, 2014. Mitchell pled guilty in April of this year. She was…