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Mississippi Identity Theft Task Force Nets Guilty Plea In $250,000 Identity Fraud Scheme
Latosha Rogers pled guilty in federal court to an identity theft fraud scheme that spanned at least three states, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton announced today. Rogers waived indictment and pled to an information charging her with devising a scheme to defraud more than 36 different retail merchants in Mississippi. As part of her plea, Rogers admitted that, using multiple Louisiana identity cards under various names, she opened more than two dozen accounts at banks in Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Rogers acknowledged that she then emptied the accounts, but continued to write more than 1500 checks, totaling in excess of $250,000, to Mississippi merchants on the accounts after they had been closed. Rogers faces a maximum penalty of twenty years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine when she is sentenced on May 26, 2007.
U.S. Attorney Lampton credited the Mississippi Identity Theft Task Force for the plea in this case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office formed the Identity Theft Task Force in 2006 to combine federal, state, and municipal resources in combating identity theft and fraud throughout the state. Don Martin of the Ridgeland Police Department, Doug Tyrone of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, and the United States Secret Service were instrumental in investigating the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Fulcher of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Trial Attorney Kathleen Hamann of the Fraud Section of the Department of Justice.
Definition:
Once money has been illegally gained, money laundering is the process of concealing those funds in order to avoid a transaction-reporting requirement under state/federal law.
Identity fraud
Definition:
Identity fraud differs from identity theft as so far as the thief doesn't steal someone else's information, but rather uses made up information.
Skimming
Definition:
Skimming in known as the method of using a information storage device when processing credit or debit cards in order to obtain the card number and then use it fraudulently.
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