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TAX SCAM: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns TAX SCAM: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns
TAX Scam: NJ Man Admits Posing As 18 Different People To Collect Returns UPDATE: A confessed ID scammer from Tenafly was sentenced to two years and two days in federal prison for posing as 18 different people to collect tax refunds, authorities said. Emmanuel A. Barrientos-Fermin, 39, must serve all of the term because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Barrientos-Fermin previously admitted in US. District Court in Newark that he gave an unnamed co-conspirator a photo of himself that was used to produce bogus driver’s licenses with his picture on them. The co-conspirator also gave him matching Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and W-2 forms …

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NJ Brothers Admit Cheating Gov't In $3M E-Commerce Postage Scam NJ Brothers Admit Cheating Gov't In $3M E-Commerce Postage Scam
NJ Brothers Admit Cheating Gov't In $3M E-Commerce Postage Scam Two brothers who co-owned a Bergen County e-commerce company admitted short-changing the government by more than $3 million in postage by altering hundreds of thousands of labels intended for envelopes and slapping them on outbound packages. Jack Koch, 44, of Elmwood Park, and Steven Koch, 43, of Pompton Lakes, owned Fresh N Clear, a high-volume business that sold various household items online that were shipped o customers via the Postal Service, federal authorities said. Over the course of several months in 2020, the company bought 240,471 USPS Priority Mail postage labels, “almost all fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco