By GREG SMITH
Norwich Bulletin
Posted Feb 17, 2009 @ 12:32 PM
Last update Feb 17, 2009 @ 11:50 PM

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New London, Conn. — A Chinese national working in the United States illegally was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for his role in a bogus credit card scheme that cost Mohegan Sun casino more than $30,000.

DeJin Lin, 32, of Flushing, N.Y., faces deportation at the completion of his sentence, state prosecutor David Smith said.

Lin was arrested by state police Feb. 27, 2008, when he tried to use a fake credit card for a cash advance at Mohegan Sun, police said.

Mohegan Sun security already had been alerted to a report that Lin had used counterfeit credit cards for cash advances earlier in the month.

On Feb. 16, 2008, Lin got a $2,000 cash advance on a credit card bearing his name, but whose account number matched a man in Fresno, Calif. Police said further investigation showed that between Feb. 15 and Feb. 19, 2008, Lin made 24 transactions with 14 different bogus cards totaling $30,700.

Mohegan Sun had a surveillance photo of the transactions, and Lin had provided a photo identification and players club card. Lin’s account was flagged, and he was arrested when he returned to the casino on Feb. 27, 2008.

Lin was in possession of 13 counterfeit credit cards at the time of his arrest. None of the cards were used in the 24 transactions that Lin had previously made, police said.

A check of FBI records revealed Lin was arrested by immigration officials in 2000 in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands for illegal entry into the United States.

Lin eventually cooperated with authorities, telling police he was approached by a man in Flushing who supplied him with fake credit cards to make cash advances and paid the man 60 percent of his take.

Lin was represented by defense attorney Thomas W. Teixeira.

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