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Date: 04-12-2022
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Case Number: 2:20-cr-00844-CCC
Judge: Claire C. Cecchi
Court: United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (Essex County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney: John Weichsel
Description: Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with filing fraudulent tax returns
Emmanuel A. Barrientos-Fermin, 39, was indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of access device fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft.
From January 2020, through February 2020, Barrientos and others conspired to utilize stolen personal identifying information (PII) to submit fraudulent tax returns in victims’ names, in order to obtain tax refunds without the victims’ knowledge or consent. A conspirator would obtain falsified Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, birth certificates and W-2s bearing the victims’ stolen PII and provide them to Barrientos-Fermin and other, who would use them to file tax returns at various tax preparation company branches posing as the victims.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Cecchi sentenced Barrientos-Fermin three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $17,373 in restitution.
U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited postal inspectors of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Newark, under the direction of Postal Inspector in Charge Damon Wood, Philadelphia Division; and special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Tammy Tomlins, with the investigation leading to today’s sentencing. He also thanked the Totowa, New Jersey, Police Department, for its assistance.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Fatime Meka Cano of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Government Fraud Unit in Newark.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 24 months and two days in prison.
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