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Miami-Dade Police Officer George Price, 42, plead guilty to providing false reports to people running credit repair agencies.
The false reports represented that the customers had reported to the Miami-Dade Police Department facts consistent with having been victims of identity theft, officials said. Price created the reports, which became officials police reports, and a member of the conspiracy would give the reports to credit reporting agencies in order to have the bad credit removed from their credit histories of the alleged ID theft victims, according to authorities.
Price created the false police reports in order to promote the success of the credit businesses, and in return would receive payment from his co-conspirators, officials said.
“George Price was a police officer who participated in a wire fraud scheme wherein he provided false police reports in exchange for payment. This unacceptable behavior only serves to tarnish the reputation of the overwhelming majority of police officers who serve their communities faithfully and well every day,” said George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Miami. “The FBI operates the Miami Area Corruption Task Force to root out this type of activity.”
Price plead guilty to commit wire fraud.
(May 14, 2015 TV News Video)