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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SANTA ANA, California<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" Officials stated that a convicted criminal from Orange County was sentenced to seven years and six months in federal prison on Monday for his role in a plot to conduct check fraud with a bank employee and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0According to authorities, Meshach Samuels conspired with a bank employee and others to commit a check fraud scheme in which they sought $1.2 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced Samuels, 26, of Placentia. Judge\u00a0 Carney, also ordered him to pay $423,087 in restitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Samuels pleaded guilty on May 25 to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and two counts of being a felon possessing firearms and ammunition.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs reflected by the voluminous actual and intended losses, [Samuels\u2019] conduct was not the product of a short-term lapse in judgment but was calculated behavior that was mass-marketed on social media and\u00a0engaged in for months, affecting scores of victims,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201cThe proceeds of the fraud were used to purchase luxury and high-end items and firearms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From May 2021 to March 2022, Samuels urged his Instagram followers to join his Telegram chat groups, where, for a fee of up to thousands of dollars, he would provide instructions on how to recruit accomplices and commit check fraud to steal money from banks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\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

Samuels\u2019 co-conspirators, with Samuels\u2019 help, would deposit the fraudulent checks into third-party accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0\u00a0 Once the check amounts were credited to the third-party accounts, Samuels\u2019 co-conspirators, again with Samuels\u2019 assistance, fraudulently withdrew money in amounts below $10,000 to avoid triggering bank scrutiny. <\/span><\/p>\n

The corrupt bank teller was paid some of the cash the conspirators obtained from negotiating fraudulent checks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This check fraud scheme attempted to obtain at least approximately $1.2 million and caused actual losses of at least $423,087.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"Samuels also participated in a scheme in 2021 to defraud the California Employment Development Department (EDD) by submitting fraudulent applications for pandemic-related unemployment insurance that contained stolen identity information. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those fraudulent applications included information from individuals who resided outside California and were deceased or otherwise not eligible for unemployment insurance. <\/span><\/p>\n

Members of the scheme provided EDD with a set of common mailing addresses they controlled for multiple applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

\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

\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

\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, admitted to unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition. <\/span><\/p>\n

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><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a related case, Sasha Lizette Jimenez, 26, Samuels\u2019\u00a0former 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

Jimenez, who was the conspiracy\u2019s bookkeeper, 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

Judge Carney has scheduled a Dec. 4 sentencing hearing for Jimenez.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The investigation into this scheme was conducted by the Los Angeles El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force, a multi-agency task force led by Homeland Security Investigations that includes federal and state investigators who are focused on financial crimes in Southern California. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration also participated in this investigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachel N. Agress of the International Narcotics, Money Laundering, and Racketeering Section prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyone with information about allegations of fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by calling the Department of Justice\u2019s National Center for Disaster Fraud Hotline at (866) 720-5721 or via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/disaster-fraud\/ncdf-disaster-complaint-form<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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