FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	August 3, 2012
Docket #: 2:07-cr-00057-GEB

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Michael John McCormick, 33, formerly of San Francisco, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to four years and three months in prison for credit card fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

According to court documents, on January 11, 2007, law enforcement officers searched McCormick’s hotel room and found a large number of fraudulently obtained credit cards, a computer with 282 credit card numbers, work sheets containing fraudulently obtained identification information, information about how to steal peoples’ identities, and numerous false driver’s licenses with McCormick’s photo and other peoples’ personal information. The officers seized approximately 72 driver licenses and 17 gift cards.

In sentencing McCormick, Judge Burrell responded to a claim by McCormick that he had not known that the people on the drivers’ licenses were real people by saying, “That is a lie.” Judge Burrell stated that the need to protect the public from additional crimes by McCormick was one of several concerns that led him to sentence McCormick to a longer prison term than had been recommended by the United States Probation Office.

This case is the product of a joint investigation by Sacramento Police Department detectives, who found McCormick and his accomplice in the hotel, and the United States Secret Service who were called to assist the detectives upon discovery of the identity theft operation.  Assistant United States Attorneys Robin Taylor and Matthew Morris prosecuted the case.

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