LOS ANGELES—A Romanian national who swiped Los Angeles County food and assistance payments from the needy using cloned ATM cards was sentenced on Sept. 22 to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,980 in restitution.
Sandu Dumitrescu, 47, pleaded guilty in June to a single federal count of bank fraud and admitted he installed skimming devices and hidden cameras at ATMs to steal and store account numbers and personal identification numbers from cards inserted into the machines at locations in Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
