American pleads guilty to fraud scheme targeting US servicemembers
Original title: Philippines-based American pleads guilty to running expansive fraud scheme targeting US servicemembers
He faces up to 40 years after using stolen military PII through July 2019, with money mules moving funds to the Philippines.
The Justice Department said Robert Wayne Boling Jr., a U.S. citizen living in the Philippines, pleaded guilty to a five-year identity-theft scheme that targeted thousands of U.S. servicemembers and veterans. He used personally identifiable information from a former Army medical-records contractor to access bank accounts and veterans' benefits. Boling was deported from the Philippines and arrested in Los Angeles in May. He faces up to 40 years at sentencing.
- He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
- The scheme ran for five years and ended in July 2019.
- Frederick Brown, an Army contractor in South Korea, supplied the stolen PII.
- Alleged co-conspirators Jongmin Seok and Allan Albert Kerr remain at large.
- Organizations
- Justice DepartmentU.S. Army
- Countries
- United StatesPhilippinesSouth Korea
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Robert Wayne Boling Jr. was the mastermind of an identity theft conspiracy that victimized thousands of military members and veterans. He faces up to 40 years in prison.
By Matt Kapko · cyberscoop.com
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