Marine pleads guilty to federal identity theft fraud
Marine pleads guilty to federal identity theft fraud
A 23-year-old U.S. Marine is looking at up to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges in an identity theft case that victimized fellow Marines stationed with him in Afghanistan, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer announced Wednesday in Miami.
Jobson Cenor, of North Miami, plotted with Dorothy Boulin, 30, of Coral Springs, to file income tax returns in the names of several Marines for nearly $54,000 in refunds, prosecutors said.
Cenor provided Boulin with a list of more than 100 names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of individuals, some of whom were serving in his unit in Afghanistan in late 2011. She filed some tax returns in January and investigators found the list during a search of Boulin’s Broward home in February, according to court documents.
Boulin identified Cenor as the supplier of the list and called him on the phone to discuss how they would split the fraudulent tax refunds. As agents listened to the conversation, Cenor told Boulin to keep his share of the proceeds until he returned from overseas, court records stated.
Boulin pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in April and was sentenced in July to nearly six years in prison. Cenor is due for sentencing in December on the same charges.
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