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Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, holding that the law enhancing the sentence for identity theft requires proof that an individual knew that the identity card or number he had used belonged to another, actual person. [1]
People v. Golb is a New York case in which Raphael Golb, a lawyer with a Ph.D. in comparative literature, was convicted for a variety of alleged criminal offenses (specifically identity theft, impersonation, aggravated harassment, forgery, and unauthorized use of a computer) relating to his use of pseudonymous blogs and emails to criticize and ridicule several Dead Sea Scrolls scholars.
18 U.S.C. § 1028A, the federal aggravated identity theft statute, states: Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute], knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti’s appeal of his aggravated identity theft conviction for stealing book proceeds from porn actor Stormy Daniels. A ...
A Fresno woman who was arrested with thousands of pieces of stolen mail in her apartment and was indicted in October 2021 on 10 counts related to bank fraud and identity theft pleaded guilty on ...
Identity fraud is the use by one person of another person's personal information, without authorization, to commit a crime or to deceive or defraud that other person or a third person. Most identity fraud is committed in the context of financial advantages, such as accessing a victim's credit card, bank accounts, or loan accounts.
Children are surprisingly frequent victims of identity theft—around 25 percent of them will experience identity fraud or theft by the time they reach adulthood. The consequences of bad credit ...
A variation of identity theft that has recently become more common is synthetic identity theft, in which identities are completely or partially fabricated. [15] The most common technique involves combining a real social security number with a name and birthdate other than the ones that are simply associated with the number.