OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma says 4 individuals have been sentenced for his or her participation in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud towards Oklahoma firms to buy OSU athletics tickets and toilet paper with stolen bank cards.
U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester says the suspects used 21 totally different electronic mail accounts and information from 52 stolen bank cards to buy over 1,800 tickets (totaling $678,842.03) to Oklahoma State University athletic occasions, together with the November 30, 2019, Bedlam soccer recreation.
The co-conspirators additionally started focusing on American companies promoting pandemic-related provides in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic – together with hundreds of {dollars}’ price of toilet paper from a paper provide firm in Oklahoma City, in accordance to the indictment.
The U.S. Attorney’s workplace says 31-year-old Steven Mesrop of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to one rely of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on August 3, 2021. He was sentenced October 7, 2022, to serve 80 months in jail.
At Mesrop’s sentencing, Chief United States District Judge Timothy DeGiusti discovered that Mesrop induced a complete lack of $3,463,253.85 and tried to trigger a further lack of $2,032,732.54. Judge DeGiusti ordered Mesrop to pay $3,463,253.85 in restitution to 39 victims.
On August 13, 2021, 29-year-old Dijon Cornelius Shepard of Los Angeles, California, pleaded responsible to one rely of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Officials say he acted as a courier on behalf of the fraud scheme.
Shepard was sentenced July 27, 2022, to 20 months in jail. Judge DeGiusti additionally ordered Shepard to pay $654,609.11 in restitution to seven victims.
Then, on December 2, 2021, 25-year-old Mirna Mahrous Habib of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, pleaded responsible to one rely of aggravated id theft.
Habib was sentenced October 31, 2022, to 4 months in jail and ordered to pay $683,243.23 in restitution to eight victims.
Finally, 24-year-old Karin Treister of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pleaded responsible to one rely of conspiracy to commit wire fraud December 9, 2021.
Although Judge DeGiusti didn’t order Treister to serve jail time, she was ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution.
Officials say the scheme operated from Canada, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Greece, and Dubai.
The indictment alleges they focused sports activities groups, occasion venues – together with Madison Square Garden in New York City – and PPE companies all through the United States and Canada.
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