Benin Man Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
A Republic of Benin man unlawfully residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was sentenced today to 48 months in prison...
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Abdou Koudos Adissa was convicted on March 31 of conspiring to commit access device fraud following a jury trial in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. According to the indictment and evidence presented at trial, from February through June 2014, Adissa was engaged in a conspiracy in which stolen identities were used to file tax returns claiming refunds with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Co-conspirators filed fraudulent tax returns seeking more than $800,000 in refunds, which were loaded onto Green Dot prepaid debit cards and sent via Western Union to Nigeria.
A sanctuary city allows an illegal immigrant to stay here illegally, and he does this.
He also needs to pay $252K in restitution to the IRS. I wonder if the IRS will get that money back to the intended people...
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