District Attorney Donovan stated, “These arrests are the culmination of an investigation which began in March 2008, following reports of fraudulent checks being laundered through Staten Island banks. That investigation, through the use of wiretaps and search warrants uncovered a nationwide confederacy of scam artists who engaged in wide-spread identity theft which yielded proceeds of at least a million dollars a year, and well over $2 million during the course of the investigation. While identity theft is enough of a violation of someone’s privacy, these individuals also targeted members of our military at Fort Hood in Texas, some bound for Iraq and Afghanistan, at the time of last November’s tragic shootings and its immediate aftermath.” Read More: http://africannewslive.com/?p=6129
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