FLORIDA – A woman was the last of six defendants to plead guilty to stealing the identities of 92 patients of a medical facility in central Florida, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Those identities were then used to file fraudulent federal income tax returns in the patients’ names to get fraudulent refunds and fraudulent credit cards, which were used to make purchases.
Eltonya Wiley, 40, of Lady Lake, pled guilty for her role in a wide-ranging identity theft scheme.
Wiley told authorities that at least 92 patients of Villages Endocopy near The Villages in Central Florida had their identities stolen while she was an employee at that medical facility.
Wiley plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
She is facing up to 20 years in prison for each count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud; and, a mandatory sentence of two years in prison for the aggravated identity theft charge, to run consecutively to any other sentence, according to federal officials.