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Former U.S. Army Finance Technician Sentenced in
Manhattan Federal Court to 42 Months in Prison for
Theft of Soldiers’ Social Security Numbers and Pay
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, announced that REYNALDO JIMENEZ
was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for theft of identity
information belonging to over 35 active duty U.S. military
service members he then used to steal pay due to those service
members. United States District Judge JOHN G. KOELTL imposed the
sentence in Manhattan federal court.
According to the Information, Complaint, and statements
made in court in connection with JIMENEZ's guilty plea and
sentencing:
From 2005 to March 2008, JIMENEZ served as an active
duty Finance Technician in the U.S. Army where his
responsibilities included helping military personnel with payroll
issues. JIMENEZ assisted some service members in accessing their
payroll information through "myPay," a military website that
directed where their pay would be deposited. By assisting
soldiers with their myPay accounts, JIMENEZ obtained access to
the social security numbers and myPay passwords of a number of
military personnel. JIMENEZ kept a list of a number of those
social security numbers and passwords.
Following March 2008, JIMENEZ, who left his duty
station in South Korea without the Army's permission, used some
of the social security numbers and passwords he had kept to log
onto various soldiers' myPay accounts and to change information
in those accounts. As part of his scheme, JIMENEZ obtained two
false driver's licenses and opened debit card accounts in names
other than his own, into which he routed some of the military
victims' pay. From approximately April through September 2008,
JIMENEZ attempted to steal over $35,000 from more than 35 active
duty military service members, and was successful in stealing
approximately $6,500.
JIMENEZ, 32, pleaded guilty on April 22, 2009 to one
count of identity theft, one count of access device fraud, one
count of fraud in connection with protected computers, and one
count of aggravated identity theft.
In addition to the prison term, Judge KOELTL ordered
JIMENEZ to serve three years of supervised release, forfeit
$6,557.47, and pay to the Government $6,557.47 in restitution.
Mr. BHARARA praised the investigative work of the
Defense Criminal Investigative Service and thanked the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and Bronx Community College's Department
of Public Safety for their assistance in this case.
Assistant United States Attorney AMIE N. ELY is in
charge of the prosecution.
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