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Date: 12-14-2020
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Case Number: 4:17-cr-44
Judge: Henry E. Hudson
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Newport News County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office, Newport News, Virginia
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Description: Newport News, Virginia counterfeiting charge criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Michael Culpeper, age 44, who was charged with defrauding a financial institution and possessing counterfeit business checks.
According to court documents, Michael Culpeper, 44, defrauded financial institutions and other businesses by creating and using counterfeit checks to obtain U.S. currency and buy goods and services. Culpeper has an extensive criminal history, encompassing numerous prior felony convictions, most of which involve similar conduct.
In January 2015, Culpeper rented a hotel room owned and operated by a Roanoke business. At the end of the rental period, the hotel refunded his security deposit with a check drawn on its business account. Culpeper subsequently used the names, addresses, and bank information from this refund check to create counterfeit and fraudulent checks. Between November 2015 and January 2017, Culpeper negotiated these counterfeit checks at least 16 times. At the time of his arrest, he had 141 more counterfeit checks.
G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Peter R. Rendina, Inspector in Charge of the Washington Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; and Steve R. Drew, Chief of Newport News Police, made the announcement after sentencing by Senior U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Howard J. Zlotnick and D. Mack Coleman prosecuted the case.
T. 18 USC 1344 and 2 - Bank Fraud; T. 18 USC 492, 981(a)(1)(C) and 982(a)(2); and T. 28 USC 2461(c) - Forfeiture Allegation
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T. 18 USC 513(a) and 2 - Making, Uttering, and Possessing a Counterfeit and Forged Security
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T. 18 USC 513(a) and 2 - Making, Uttering, and Possessing a Counterfeit and Forged Security
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Outcome: 12/04/2020 36 Subpoenas issued. (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum) (bpet, ) (Entered: 12/04/2020)
12/04/2020 37 Position on Sentencing by Michael Culpeper (Sacks, Andrew) (Entered: 12/04/2020)
12/04/2020 38 MOTION for Acceptance of Responsibility by USA as to Michael Culpeper. (Coleman, David) (Entered: 12/04/2020)
12/04/2020 39 Position on Sentencing by USA as to Michael Culpeper (Coleman, David) (Entered: 12/04/2020)
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