• Seabrook man pleads guilty to Social Security fraud

  • Posted Apr. 2, 2015 at 10:25 AM

    PORTLAND, Maine — A 30-year-old Seabrook, N.H., man pleaded guilty to Social Security fraud recently in U.S. District Court in Portland.

    Rodrigo Schumacker faces up to 5 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and supervised release of up to 3 years, according to, United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.

    According to court records, in March 2010, Schumacker, a Brazilian citizen, completed an application requesting that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services grant him permanent resident status. On the application, Schumacker claimed that he had been assigned a certain Social Security number, when in fact he had never been assigned a Social Security number. The number Schumacker used had been assigned to a woman in Florida who was deceased at the time he used it.

    He later admitted to investigators that he knew the number he had used was not assigned to him

    Schumacker will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the United States Probation Office.

    The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

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