A 14-count indictment charging Deangelo Parker with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft was announced last week in Florida. If convicted, Parker faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each of the seven counts of wire fraud and two years’ maximum imprisonment for each aggravated identity theft offense. Parker made his…
Category: ID Theft
CT: Stamford Cablevision employee stole customer credit card info at walk-in center
Greg Canuel reports: A former employee of the Cablevision walk-in center in Norwalk was accused Wednesday of stealing customers’ credit card information, according to police reports. Residents from Norwalk and Stamford contacted the Norwalk Police Department in August after noticing fraudulent charges on their credit card bills, police said. Both reported that they had visited…
Baltimore police officer pleads to extortion and ID theft
Ian Duncan reports: A Baltimore police officer pleaded guilty to identity theft and extortion Wednesday after being caught in an elaborate FBI sting that involved an informant posing as a crooked tax preparer and heroin dealer. Over the course of this spring, Ashley Roane, 26, worked with the informant to try to file false tax…
Debt Collection Employee and Son-in-Law Sent to Prison for Identity Theft Tax Scheme
A follow-up to a case previously reported on this blog involving an employee of Hollis Cobb Associates: Quentin Collick of Montgomery, Ala., and Deatrice Williams of Duluth, Ga., were sentenced Nov. 1, 2013, to serve 85 and 51 months in prison, respectively. Collick and Williams were previously found guilty by a jury in the Middle…
Montgomery Man Sentenced In Identity Theft Related State Income Tax Fraud
John Irving Wheeler, 31 years old, of Montgomery, was sentenced to serve 210 months of incarceration on October 31, 2013. Wheeler was also ordered to pay one million dollars in restitution to the States of Georgia and Michigan. Wheeler pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud on April…
Update: Final Defendants Sentenced to Federal Prison for Participating in Identity Theft Scam
On September 30, there was an update from the IRS’s Criminal Investigation unit to an insider breach previously reported on this blog: The final two defendants charged in relation to an identity theft scam that used identities stolen from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services to file fraudulent tax returns were sentenced…