Thread: Identity thief picks wrong target: Attorney General Eric Holder

Identity thief picks wrong target: Attorney General Eric Holder

Published March 13, 2014FoxNews.com


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Aug. 12, 2013: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks to the American Bar Association Annual meeting.AP


Pro tip: If you're going to try your hand at identity thieving, avoid using the name of the top law enforcement officer in the country.
Yafait Tadesse could have used that lesson. He was sentenced this week to a year and a day in prison for using more than 10 other identities -- including Attorney General Eric Holder's -- to file fraudulent tax returns.
According to the Justice Department, Tadesse and another co-defendant swiped names and Social Security numbers from websites and used them to file the false tax returns, seeking fraudulent refunds, between 2012 and 2013.

The returns claimed, incorrectly, that the individuals worked at Wal-Mart -- and that refunds should be loaded onto debit cards, to be sent to the same Georgia mailing address.

One of the returns used the identity of Eric Holder, who does not work at Wal-Mart.

According to the DOJ, there is "no indication" Holder was specifically targeted because of his position. Rather, his information may have been obtained from "publicly available websites."

The IRS and FBI investigated the case. Tadesse, in addition to his prison sentence, was ordered to pay $4,014 to the IRS. The other defendant already pleaded guilty and will be sentenced later this year.

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Ga. man sentenced in identity theft, tax fraud

The Associated Press
March 12, 2014

ATLANTA — Federal prosecutors say a metro Atlanta man has been sentenced for using the identities of more than 10 people — including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder — in an identity theft and tax fraud scheme.

Authorities said Wednesday that 21-year-old Yafait Tadesse of Carrollton was sentenced to a year and one day in prison in the scheme.

Prosecutors say Tadesse and his co-defendant Eyaso Abebe obtained names and personal information from a website that publishes information belonging to unsuspecting victims.

Prosecutors say one victim wrote a letter to the sentencing judge saying his wife was pregnant with their seventh child and the tax fraud prevented them from getting their legitimate refund.

Abebe is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 7.

http://www.macon.com/2014/03/12/2986...ity-theft.html

Only a year and a day for stealing the identities of so many Americans???

W

If the identity thieves were Dreamers, I'm sure Holder won't press charges ..

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Only a year and a day for stealing the identities of so many Americans??? W

Yafait Tadesse must have drawn a hard judge to get felony prison time. With better provision of names and SSNs of deceased persons, he might have become President of the U.S. instead of a federal felon. There has been no effort to close that window of opportunity since the last time it worked - what's to stop a similar crime of opportunity?

Tadesse might do better to start a little lower on the gravy train, though - a comprehensive immigration reform lobbyist, then a state attorney general and later, governor. He might thereby avoid poking a twig in the eye of any of the 1200 or so state electors, AGs, and governors, and U.S. Congress-critters who have a sworn responsibility to support and defend, including to object to such grievous sedition as the annulling without amendment of Art. ii, § 1, ¶ 5, the natural born Citizen clause.

Oh, never mind. Someone else already annulled that clause in the Constitution - this latecomer to the party can't render it null and void a second time.

Interesting times we live in.
Yeeeaaaup . . . interesting times indeed.