How would you like to live a lavish life, take lavish trips to the Caribbean, Paris and Hawaii, all expenses paid, charged on account? Only, its not your own hard earned money set aside for vacation budget, but charged on other people's account. Nope they're not philanthropists but your victims!
A handsome and athletic Ivy Leaguer, Edward K. Anderton, 25, of Everett, Wash. together with his girlfriend Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, stole the identities of friends, co-workers and neighbors to finance their luxury lifestyle. Perhaps it was not taught in school that they're supposed to work after college to finance their own expenses. Anderton admitted to federal identity theft charges that likely carry a 5-year prison sentence. He pleaded guilty to 6 counts, including bank fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft.
The "poster children of identity fraud" as what they were called by the federal prosecutor, have victimized more than a dozen people. They used an increasingly sophisticated set of schemes to obtain more than $116,000 in goods and services and tried to obtain at least another $122,000 more. They created layers of transactions that further distanced themselves to fraud activities.
A handsome and athletic Ivy Leaguer, Edward K. Anderton, 25, of Everett, Wash. together with his girlfriend Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, stole the identities of friends, co-workers and neighbors to finance their luxury lifestyle. Perhaps it was not taught in school that they're supposed to work after college to finance their own expenses. Anderton admitted to federal identity theft charges that likely carry a 5-year prison sentence. He pleaded guilty to 6 counts, including bank fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft.
The "poster children of identity fraud" as what they were called by the federal prosecutor, have victimized more than a dozen people. They used an increasingly sophisticated set of schemes to obtain more than $116,000 in goods and services and tried to obtain at least another $122,000 more. They created layers of transactions that further distanced themselves to fraud activities.
Anderton used to earn $60,000 in a finance job and since his arrest in November last year he's earning $10 an hour doing construction job. If he only put his Ivy League knowledge into good use, he could have earned that money he stole easily, but rather he and his ex-girlfriend chose the easy road to do what rich people do. Kirsch by the way is under house arrest because while awaiting her plea she was able to pull off another theft, she stolen someone's credit card again. Wow talk about greed.
A former banker, entrepreneur, accountant, tax professional and now a stay-at-home-mom to a very smart and energetic toddler.
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