A Paterson man was sentenced today to time served – 17 months – for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Honig, Miguel Ortiz, 22, of Paterson, previously pleaded guilty to an information charging him with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Ortiz and others participated in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud in which they conspired to break into U.S. Postal Service collection boxes throughout New Jersey and then steal mail.
The members of the conspiracy agreed to fraudulently deposit stolen checks into bank accounts associated with members of the conspiracy, despite the fact that they were not payees on the checks.
Members of the conspiracy then withdrew funds from those accounts.
Judge McNulty also sentenced Ortiz to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $90,864 in restitution and $23,123 in forfeiture.