There’s an update to a case noted on this site earlier this year. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of NY on December 19: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of…
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PBSO deputy tied to $283,000 identity-theft scam
Mike Stucka reports: The Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy arrested Thursday on federal identity-theft charges is tied to a longtime scamster who pleaded guilty this year to a $283,00 identity theft, as well as being part of a $387,000 fraud to rent dozens of houses that weren’t his. A Homeland Security agent’s affidavit against deputy Frantz Felisma, 42,…
NJ: Insurance agent allegedly stole clients’ identities to commit fraud
Dave Hutchinson reports: A former Union County insurance agent has been accused of receiving more than $6,000 in illegal commissions by stealing the identities of former clients and fraudulently applying for new life insurance policies with another company, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said Friday in a news release. […l After leaving American Income and…
Derrell Lee of Atlanta Sentenced To 32 Months For Aggravated Identity Theft And Bank Fraud Involving TD Bank Branches In Vermont
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Derrell Lee, 25, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today for his role in a scheme to defraud TD Bank through the cashing or attempted cashing of fraudulent checks in Vermont using the stolen personal information and bank account information of other…
UK: Former LV= employee jailed over data leak
Rozi Jones reports: Two people have been sentenced to 12 months in prison after a leak of confidential data by a former employee of LV= to a claims management company. Aisha Elliott was sentenced to 12 months for offering a bribe and Stephen Karl Oates was also sentenced to 12 months for receiving a bribe…
FL: Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy arrested in ID theft case
Paula McMahon and Adam Sacasa report: A Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy faces identity theft and fraud charges for abusing his access to a law enforcement database to steal people’s personal information, authorities said Thursday. Another man arrested in the same case told investigators that he agreed to pay Deputy Frantz Felisma $10,000 a month in…