Alexsandr Bernik, 28, of Roseville, California pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to two counts of wire fraud relating to a scheme to extract funds from American Express cardholders by assessing small fraudulent charges on thousands of American Express cards. This case is the product of a joint investigation by the United States Secret Service…
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Man who stole for penis enlargements, breast implants sent to prison
Kevin Amerman reports: A Philadelphia man who authorities say stole the identities of eight Lehigh Valley residents to rack up $88,000 of bills in their names, partly to buy penis enlargements for him and a friend and breast implants for two women, could serve nearly two decades behind bars. Lehigh County Judge Maria L. Dantos…
IT analyst at NY Fed Reserve Bank pleads guilty to ID theft scheme
A former employee of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, Curtis L. Wiltshire, pleaded guilty today to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for having obtained student loans using stolen identities. Kenneth Wiltshire, Curtis Wiltshire’s brother, pleaded guilty to related charges on September 15, 2009. According to the…
Two Romanians to face phishing charges in US
Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has extradited two Romanians to the U.S., where they face charges in connection with a massive phishing scam. The two men, Petru Belbita, 25, and Cornel Tonita, 28, are accused of setting up fake phishing sites designed to steal user names and passwords…
18 months in prison for woman accused of I.D. theft
As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, Stephanie Locke has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for bank fraud and social security misuse. One of the victims, a J.C. Penney employee, Michelle McCambridge, helped when she recognized Locke when Locke came up to her register. More details on KING5.
Leader of $2 Million ID Theft Ring Pleads Guilty in VA
After six of seven scheduled witnesses testified at his trial, Leonardo Darnell Zanders, age 49, of Dolton, Ill., pled guilty Monday in federal court in Virginia to conspiring to commit bank fraud as one of the leaders in a nationwide identity theft ring that has resulted in a total loss of more than $2.1 million…