WTVY reports: 30-year-old Tamika Floyd a resident of Salem, Ala., pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for her involvement in a Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme (SIRF), announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and…
Category: ID Theft
FL: Former corrections officer sent to prison for stealing inmate identities
Tampa Bay Times reports an update to a previously noted case: A former state correctional officer from Tampa has been sentenced to federal prison for more than four years for stealing the identity of inmates to file fraudulent tax returns. Jerry St. Fleur, 26, was given four years and three months in prison for wire…
NC: 2 charged with ID theft
WCNC reports: Police arrested a man and woman accused of identity theft in the Charlotte area. CMPD charged Brent Caltagirone and Karima Lane with identity theft and conspiracy to commit identity theft and trafficking in stolen IDs on September 26. Detectives determined through an investigation that Caltagirone was given the names and social security numbers…
ID Theft Service Customer Gets 27 Months
Brian Krebs reports: A Florida man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for trying to purchase Social Security numbers and other data from an identity theft service that pulled consumer records from a subsidiary of credit bureau Experian. Derric Theoc, 36, pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase Social Security and bank account records on more than…
Miami-Dade County Resident Sentenced For Identity Theft Schemes Involving Fraudulent Social Security Benefits And Income Tax Refunds
Thervil Alcinor, 34, of Miami, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga to 88 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Alcinor previously pled guilty to one count of access device fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(a)(2), and one count of aggravated identity theft,…
Yet More IRS Employees Busted for Stealing Taxpayers’ Identities
J.D. Tuccille writes: It’s hard to keep up with the privacy-threatening shenanigans at the Internal Revenue Service, but let’s give it a try. Just days after revealing that the tax agency’s failure to follow its own rules put the private data of 1.4 million people at risk, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration publicized the…