A Romanian citizen pleaded guilty today to a scheme to
defraud customers of Bank of America and PNC Bank through conduct known as “ATM
skimming.”
Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Acting U.S. Attorney William E.
Fitzpatrick of the District of New
Jersey; and Special Agent in Charge Terence S. Opiola of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Newark, New Jersey,
Division made the announcement.
Radu Bogdan Marin, 36, a Romanian citizen residing in
Glendale, New York, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank
fraud before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas of the District of New Jersey.
According to admissions in the plea agreement, Marin and his
co-conspirators sought to defraud financial institutions and their customers by
illegally obtaining customer account information, including account numbers and
personal identification numbers. Marin
admitted that between March 2015 and July 2016, Marin and his co-conspirators
used counterfeit ATM cards and stolen customer information to withdraw cash
from compromised bank accounts at ATMs in New Jersey. Marin and his co-conspirators used more than
10 ATM cards to conduct cash withdrawals in New Jersey, withdrawing tens of
thousands of dollars, $39,140 of which was personally atrributable to Marin.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland
Security Investigation’s Newark, New Jersey, Division; U.S. Secret Service’s
Boston Field Office; Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Police Department; Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Police Department; and Medford, Massachusetts, Police Department
investigated the case with assistance from Bank of America Security and Fraud
Section and PNC Bank Security Division.
The Middlesex County, Massachusetts, District Attorney’s Office; U.S.
Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of New York and U.S. Attorney’s Office
of the District of Massachusetts Springfield Division assisted in the
investigation and prosecution. Trial
Attorney Marianne Shelvey of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang
Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Graves of the District of New Jersey
are prosecuting the case.
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