Defendant In Major ID-Theft Case Found Guilty

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edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
A Nigerian national charged in a California identity-theft case involving at least 145,000 personal and financial records of consumers was found guilty Thursday and sentenced to 16 months in state prison.
In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41, changed his innocent plea to no contest and was immediately found guilty of one count of unlawful use of personal data. Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Paul M. Enright sentenced Oluwatosin to 16 months in state prison, but gave the defendant 180 days credit for the time he had been held in custody.

Oluwatosin was arrested on six counts of violating the state identity theft statue in late October in a sting operation stemming from the theft of personal and financial records from ChoicePoint Inc., one of the nation's largest information services.
Source: InternetWeek
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