MIAMI – A Doral person has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and requested to shell out $123,000 in restitution just after pleading responsible late previous yr to conspiracy to dedicate mail fraud.
Federal officers say Reinaldo Miralles Gonzalez, 52, was part of a fraud plan that qualified generally aged end users of a cash transfer support.
“Fraudsters would speak to users of the company, determine by themselves as FBI brokers (employing the names of real agents), and scare the end users into believing that the FBI experienced discovered them as monetary supporters of terrorism,” officials claimed.
“Threatening legal motion, and in 1 scenario deportation, the fraudsters tricked the victims into mailing blank income orders to addresses affiliated with Gonzalez. Some victims were consistently victimized and compelled to acquire cash from retirement accounts to satisfy the demands.”
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