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Date: 08-13-2021
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Case Number: 1:21-cr-00025-JPJ-PMS
Judge: James P. Jones
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia (Washington County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Abingdon, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring with others to defraud the government of more than $499,000 and to commit mail fraud.
Jared Mitchell, 31, was indicted on a one count of conspiring to defraud the United States and one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud with respect to benefits authorized and paid in connection with a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency.
Mitchell participated in a conspiracy to commit fraud against the United States in connection with a scheme involving the filing of fraudulent claims for pandemic unemployment benefits.
Mitchell, and others, conspired to collect personal identification information of more than 35 co-conspirators, including 15 inmates in the custody of the Virginia Department of Corrections, and to file fraudulent claims of pandemic-related unemployment benefits.
Over the course of nine months, the conspiracy filed fraudulent claims for at least 37 individuals, with a total actual loss to the United States of at least $499,000.
Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar of the Western District of Virginia, Darrell J. Waldon, IRS-CI Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Washington DC Field Office, and Syreeta Scott, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, Philadelphia Region, U. S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General announced the sentence today.
The Department of Labor Office of the Inspector General and the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, the Norton Police Department, and the Russell County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.
Assistant United States Attorney Daniel J. Murphy prosecuted the case.
18:71.F - CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES (1/31/2021)
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18:1349.F - ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FRAUD - 18 USC 1349 and 1341 - Mail Fraud (1/31/2021)
(2)
Outcome: CBOP: Twenty-four (24) months to run concurrently. This term shall run consecutively to any previously imposed state or federal sentence. Supervised Release: Three (3) years, consisting of the same term on each count to run concurrently; Special Assessment: $100.00
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