Monday, February 19, 2018

Obama appointee to senior ICE post pleads guilty

Raphael A. Sanchez has switched roles in the chronicle of Obama administration appointments.

For his own personal gain, Sanchez used the personally identifiable information of those aliens to open lines of credit and personal loans in their names, manipulated their credit bureau files and transferred funds to and purchased goods for himself using credit cards issued in their names.

Sanchez used the forged documents to open credit card and bank accounts in the names of aliens, which he controlled.

In furtherance of the scheme, Sanchez listed his home address as the aliens' residences on account paperwork; in some cases, created public utility account statements in their names to provide the necessary proof of residence in order to open lines of credit in their names or to conceal the scheme; and opened e-mail and online financial accounts in the names of several aliens.

Sanchez further admitted that once the accounts were approved and opened, he made charges or drew payments totaling more than $190,000 in the names of aliens to himself or entities that he controlled, often using PayPal and mobile point of sale devices from Amazon, Square, Venmo and Coin to process fraudulent Internet transactions.

In a number of cases, Sanchez purchased goods online in the names of aliens and had them shipped to his residence.

Interestingly, none of the few media reports on this case includes a picture of Sanchez, and I have been unable to find one, which is rare for senior appointees in the federal government.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/02/obama_appointee_to_senior_ice_post_pleads_guilty.html 

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