LOS ANGELES
A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted an Orange County man on charges that he fraudulently obtained access to Boeing employees’ retirement accounts, according to officials.
Hoa Vo siphoned their money by making hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of fraudulent money transfers to himself.
If convicted of all charges, Vo would face a statutory maximum sentence of 92 years in federal prison, officials stated.
Vo, 30, whose aliases include “Hoa Thanh Tran Vo” and “Andy Vo,” of Santa Ana, is charged with three counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
According to the indictment, from January 2019 to June 2019, Vo obtained the personal identifying information of Boeing employees, along with information about their retirement accounts, known as Voluntary Investment Plan (VIP) accounts.
Vo then allegedly made fraudulent withdrawal requests for checks and electronic money transfers totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the VIP accounts of various Boeing employees.
Knowing that notifications and checks related to these fraudulent requests would be mailed out, Vo placed holds on the Boeing employees’ mail with the United States Postal Service, the indictment further alleges, officials allege.
Once the mail was held, Vo allegedly intercepted the mail by presenting to a postal employee a fraudulent California driver’s license with a Boeing employee’s personal identifying information, and a fraudulent note purportedly was written or signed by the Boeing employee authorizing Vo to pick up the employee’s mail.
Vo allegedly then deposited the stolen checks into a bank account that had been fraudulently opened in a Boeing employee’s name, according to authorities.
Vo also cashed checks written to himself from the fraudulently opened bank account by using the Boeing employee’s forged signature, and endorsed the checks himself, according to the indictment.
In total, Vo attempted to obtain about $783,328 from Boeing employees’ VIP accounts, and actually obtained about $360,847, the indictment alleges.
Vo is presumed innocent unless proven guilty..