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Feds: Allentown Woman Gets 75 Years In Prison For Using Stolen IDs To File Taxes Feds: Allentown Woman Gets 75 Years In Prison For Using Stolen IDs To File Taxes
Feds: Allentown Woman Gets 75 Years In Prison For Using Stolen IDs To File Taxes An Allentown woman was sentenced to 75 years behind bars, and must pay $857,000 to the federal government for allegedly stealing victims' identities and using them to obtain significant tax refunds, authorities said. Marien Torres-Acevedo, 38, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government between January 2015 to July 2016, according to Acting United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler. Torres-Acevedo and her co-conspirators secured fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks and cashed them at various check-cashing businesses, including several in Pennsylvania, Brandler said. Torres-Aceved…

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