Financial Fraud: Sylvia Price Pleaded Guilty To A Racketeering Conspiracy and Aggravated Identity Theft

<h2 class&equals;"node-title">Member of the Simple City Criminal Organization Pleads Guilty to a Racketeering Conspiracy and Aggravated Identity Theft<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"node-subtitle center"><strong>Used the Identities of More Than 230 Victims to Engage in Fraudulent Financial Transactions<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"field field--name-field-pr-subtitle field--type-text field--label-hidden"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"field&lowbar;&lowbar;items">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"field&lowbar;&lowbar;item even">&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><strong><em>Greenbelt<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&comma; Maryland – Sylvia Price&comma; a&sol;k&sol;a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Deez Nuts&comma;” age 50&comma; of Suitland&comma; Maryland pleaded guilty today to conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy and to aggravated identity theft&comma; in connection with her activities in the Simple City Criminal Organization &lpar;SCCO&rpar;&comma; a racketeering enterprise engaged in fraud and related activity&comma; including vehicle theft and interstate transportation of stolen property&period;  Specifically&comma; Sylvia Price admitted that she engaged in fraudulent financial transactions&comma; using the identities of over 230 victims&comma; with losses to the victims of SCCO’s activities of at least &dollar;453&comma;900&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J&period; Rosenstein&semi; Special Agent in Charge Kevin Perkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation&semi; Chief Hank Stawinski of the Prince George’s County Police Department&semi; and Chief J&period; Thomas Manger of the Montgomery County Police Department&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to her plea agreement&comma; from at least 2009 to July 2015&comma; Price and her conspirators met on a regular basis and planned criminal activity&comma; including vehicle theft&comma; the interstate transportation of stolen property&comma; identity theft and credit&sol;debit card fraud&period;  The SCCO received money and income from those criminal activities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For example&comma; Sylvia Price received stolen pocketbooks containing checks&comma; credit and debit cards&comma; and other forms of identification&comma; such as driver’s licenses&comma; from other members of SCCO&period;  Price and other conspirators used the stolen items to conduct fraudulent <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;"588">financial<&sol;a> transactions&period; The money obtained from those transactions was given to Price&comma; who then provided a portion to another SCCO member&comma; to divide with the co-conspirators who stole the pocketbooks&period;  Law enforcement intercepted communications between Price and another SCCO member in which they discuss providing handbags stolen from automobiles to Price&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On July 16&comma; 2015&comma; law enforcement agents executed a search warrant at Price’s home in Suitland and recovered checkbooks and means of identifications of individuals who had reported their vehicles stolen&comma; or had reported a theft of those items from their vehicle&period;  In addition&comma; law enforcement recovered 95 women’s designer handbags worth approximately &dollar;53&comma;000&comma; as well as gift cards totaling approximately &dollar;1&comma;180&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As part of her plea agreement&comma; Sylvia Price will be required to forfeit and pay restitution of at least &dollar;453&comma;900&comma; the full amount of the victims’ losses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sylvia Price faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the racketeering conspiracy&comma; and a mandatory sentence of two years in prison&comma; consecutive to any other sentence&comma; for aggravated identity theft&period; U&period;S&period; District Judge George J&period; Hazel has scheduled sentencing for November 21&comma; 2016&comma; at 2&colon;30 p&period;m&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Co-defendants Stefon Janey&comma; a&sol;k&sol;a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Stef&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Stef Luva&comma;” age 23&comma; of Marlow Heights&comma; Maryland&comma; Jessica Rubio&comma; age 38&comma; of Washington&comma; D&period;C&period; previously pleaded guilty to their participation in the racketeering conspiracy&period;  Rubio also pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft&period;  Judge Hazel sentenced Janey to 27 months in prison&comma; and Rubio to 40 months in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>United States Attorney Rod J&period; Rosenstein praised the FBI&comma; Prince George’s County Police Department&comma; Montgomery County Police Department and the members of the Washington Area Vehicle Enforcement Unit for their work in the investigation&period;  Mr&period; Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorneys Thomas M&period; Sullivan and Nicolas A&period; Mitchell&comma; who are prosecuting the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-md&sol;pr&sol;member-simple-city-criminal-organization-pleads-guilty-racketeering-conspiracy-and">Original PressReleases &&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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