Four Miami-Dade residents have been indicted for their participation in various schemes to defraud the United States government. Fernando Mendez Villamil, 48, of South Miami, Maritza Exposito, 57, of Miami, Arnaldo Oscar Jimenez, 57, of Hialeah, and Yomara Vila, 45, of Miami were charged in a twenty-one count indictment for their participation in a scheme…
Category: ID Theft
FL: Orlando Woman Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison For Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
There’s an update to a case previously mentioned on this site. Shantrell Sharae Stephenson has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for stolen identity refund fraud. She was also ordered to pay $92,532 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. She pleaded guilty on August 26, 2015. According to court documents, Lori Ann Dilworth,…
Number Of ID Theft Investigations DROP After California Allows Illegals Driver’s Licenses
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…
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…