Financial Fraud: Shameer Hassan And Nadine Bromfield Alexander Sentenced For Conspiracy To Commit Wire Fraud And Money Laundering

<h2>Members Of Fraudulent Jamaican Sweepstakes Ring Sentenced For Conspiracy&comma; Money Laundering And Aggravated Identity Theft<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Orlando&comma; Florida – United States District Judge Roy B&period; Dalton has sentenced Shameer Hassan &lpar;45&comma; Kissimmee&rpar; and Nadine Bromfield Alexander &lpar;39&comma; Orlando&rpar; to 10 years and 7 years in federal prison&comma; respectively&comma; for conspiracy to commit wire fraud&comma; conspiracy to commit money laundering&comma; and aggravated identity theft&period; Hassan was sentenced to an additional 2 years’ imprisonment for money laundering&period; The court also ordered Hassan and Alexander to pay &dollar;150&comma;314 in restitution to the identified victims of the fraud scheme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>A federal jury found Hassan and Alexander guilty on November 6&comma; 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to testimony and evidence presented at trial&comma; Hassan and Alexander participated in a fraudulent sweepstakes scheme that operated in the Middle District of Florida and Jamaica&period; Members of the conspiracy targeted victims throughout the United States&comma; many of whom were elderly&comma; and falsely informed them that they had won a multi-million dollar prize in a sweepstakes contest&period; The conspirators instructed the victims to wire funds to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;representatives” in Orlando in order to prepay fees and taxes associated with the prize&period; Upon receipt of the funds&comma; other members of the conspiracy converted the funds to money orders and cash&period; They then paid Hassan&comma; who operated several money transfer businesses&comma; to wire the fraud proceeds to Jamaica&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alexander stole the personal identity information belonging to more than 35 individuals from her workplace and gave that information to her co-conspirators&period; Hassan then used the stolen identity information to launder the funds&period; In less than two years&comma; Hassan and his co-conspirators transferred &dollar;4&period;7 million in funds&comma; obtained from victims&comma; to conspirators in Jamaica&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The court previously sentenced the following members of the conspiracy&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Charlton Morris &lpar;39&comma; Casselberry&rpar; pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering&period; He was sentenced to 10 years&comma; 1 month in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Robert Blake Madurie &lpar;29&comma; Jamaica&rpar; pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft&period; He was sentenced to eight years in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Danny Lopez &lpar;32&comma; Orlando&rpar; pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud&period; He was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Treysier LaPalme &lpar;25&comma; Orlando&rpar; pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud&period; He was sentenced to seven years and three three months in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oral Anthony Stewart &lpar;35&comma; Lithonia&comma; Georgia&rpar; pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud&period; He was sentenced to five years in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security and the SCIRS Federal <a class&equals;"wpil&lowbar;keyword&lowbar;link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;tag&sol;financial-fraud&sol;amp&sol;" title&equals;"Financial" data-wpil-keyword-link&equals;"linked" data-wpil-monitor-id&equals;"924">Financial<&sol;a> Crimes Task Force&comma; whose members include the IRS- Criminal Investigation&comma; the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office&comma; the St&period; Cloud Police Department&comma; the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office&comma; the Winter Park Police Department&comma; the Casselberry Police Department&comma; the Kissimmee Police Department&comma; the Maitland Police Department&comma; the Palm Bay Police Department&comma; and the U&period;S&period; Secret Service&period; It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Karen L&period; Gable and Roger B&period; Handberg&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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