Montgomery, Alabama – On August 29, 2012, Rhashema Deramus, 23 of Montgomery, Alabama pled guilty to multiple charges stemming from her part in a fraudulent income tax refund scheme, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. Deramus and those working for her stole people’s identities and used those stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns. Read More »
LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man has been found guilty of federal fraud charges for his role in an international identity theft and credit card fraud scheme which targeted elderly cardholders. Doren Harold Ward, 37, who resides in Park La Brea, was convicted Friday afternoon by a federal jury of six felony counts, including Read More »
OAKLAND, Calif. – Two southern California men pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of California for their roles in a scheme to defraud nearly 1,000 debit card holders by using stolen bank account information to withdraw money from ATMs, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; and Andrew C. Adelmann, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service San Francisco Field Office.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – David Lee Parker, 50, of Alexandria, Va., has pleaded guilty to a six-count criminal information charging him with several different fraud schemes that he perpetrated throughout the past six years. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; David E. Beach, Special Agent in Charge of the United Read More »
Mary Jane Sanderford Admits to Stealing More Than $30,000 ABINGDON, VIRGINIA – A Tennessee woman who spent more than $30,000 of an elderly woman’s money to which she was not entitled to pled guilty this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon. Mary Jane Sanderford, 62, of Read More »
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit credit cards, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Richard G. Foster, Jr., 24 pleaded guilty to one count before Senior United States District Judge Maurice B. Cohill, Jr. In connection Read More »
NORFOLK, Va. – Tiquan Savary, 25, of Norfolk, Va., was sentenced today in Norfolk federal court to seven years in prison for running a fraudulent scheme to skim credit and debit card account numbers. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the announcement after United States District Judge Arenda Read More »
BOSTON – A federal indictment has been unsealed charging a Haverhill man with fraud in connection with his attempt to avoid paying his credit card debts. Mark A. Lizotte, 39, was indicted on multiple counts of mail and wire fraud. The indictment alleges that Lizotte fraudulently attempted to discharge debts he had incurred and remove Read More »
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. Billy Chad Reese, 39, of Newport, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 130 months in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea by Reese on August 11, 2011, to Read More »
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA — A New York resident was sentenced on January 23, 2012, in United States District Court in Wheeling before Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced that: SIMON LEE, age 37, of Flushing, New York, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment to be followed by three years Read More »
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