Purported Romanian Crime Figure Gets 5 Years in Prison for ID Theft

Purported Romanian Crime Figure Gets 5 Years in Prison for ID Theft
Customers use Wells Fargo Bank ATM machines in Santa Clara, Calif., on April 18, 2011. AP Photo/Paul Sakuma
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—The purported leader of a Romanian organized crime group was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison for identity theft in a scheme to steal money from public assistance accounts with cloned cards.

Florin Duduianu, 39, whose last known address was in Mission Viejo, was convicted of two counts of aggravated identity theft in a non-jury bench trial before U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb Jan. 23.

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