{"id":53215,"date":"2023-05-26T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53215"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T17:08:36","slug":"man-guilty-of-1-2-million-check-fraud-scheme-promoted-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53215","title":{"rendered":"Man Guilty of $1.2 Million Check Fraud Scheme Promoted on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>SANTA ANA, California\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Officials stated that a convicted felon from Orange County who used social media to instruct his Instagram followers on how to defraud banks pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with a bank employee and others to commit a check fraud scheme in which they sought $1.2 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meshach Samuels, 26, of Placentia, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and two counts of being a felon possessing firearms and ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney scheduled an Oct. 23, sentencing hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Samuels faces up to 30 years in federal prison for the bank fraud conspiracy count and up to 10 years imprisonment for each count of illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39125 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cropped-Courtroom-1-300x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"119\" \/>\u00a0 According to his plea agreement, from May 2021 to March 2022, Samuels urged his Instagram followers to join his Telegram chat groups, where \u2013 for a fee of up to thousands of dollars \u2013 he would provide instructions on how to recruit accomplices and commit check fraud to steal money from banks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Samuels and his accomplices would create fraudulent checks drawn on victim accounts, frequently using stolen information obtained from a bank teller and other sources. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Samuels\u2019 co-conspirators would deposit the fraudulent checks into third-party accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52284 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/instagram-png-instagram-png-logo-1455-1024x1024-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/instagram-png-instagram-png-logo-1455-1024x1024-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/instagram-png-instagram-png-logo-1455-1024x1024-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/instagram-png-instagram-png-logo-1455-1024x1024-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/instagram-png-instagram-png-logo-1455-1024x1024-1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Once the check amounts were credited to the third-party accounts, Samuels\u2019 co-conspirators, aided and abetted by Samuels, fraudulently withdrew money in amounts below $10,000 to avoid triggering bank scrutiny. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The corrupt bank teller was paid some cash the conspirators obtained from negotiating fraudulent checks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This check fraud scheme attempted to obtain at least approximately $1.2 million and caused actual losses of at least $400,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 According to officials, Samuels also admitted to a scheme to defraud the California Employment Development Department (EDD) by submitting fraudulent applications for pandemic-related unemployment insurance containing stolen identity information. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51091\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51091\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/giorgio-trovato-wyxqqpyfnk8-unsplash-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"white and black printer paper\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@giorgiotrovato\" rel=\"nofollow\">Giorgio Trovato<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=american-justice-notebook&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Those fraudulent applications included information from individuals who resided outside California were deceased, or were otherwise not eligible for unemployment insurance. Members of the scheme provided EDD with a set of common mailing addresses they controlled for multiple applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After EDD approved the fraudulent applications and disbursed the pandemic benefits to EDD debit accounts, Samuels and his co-schemers used the debit cards to withdraw cash at ATMs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In total, Samuels caused at least $14,250 in actual losses to EDD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition, Samuels, whose criminal history includes felony convictions in Florida for aggravated battery on a law enforcement official with an enhancement for attempted murder, admitted to unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37897 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Jail-Hallway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>Specifically, during an August 2021 traffic stop in Costa Mesa, police officers found a firearm and ammunition concealed on his person. In March 2022, federal agents searched Samuels\u2019 residence and seized five firearms and ammunition.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a related case, Sasha Lizette Jimenez, 26, Samuels\u2019 former girlfriend, pleaded guilty on May 22 to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud for running the EDD fraud scheme in which Samuels participated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> Jimenez, who was the bookkeeper for the conspiracy, caused the issuance of at least $2.8 million in fraudulent UI benefit debit cards \u2013 and at least $2.3 million was withdrawn from those debit cards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Judge Carney has scheduled an Oct. 30 sentencing hearing for Jimenez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5792900631MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant United States Attorneys Rachel N. 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