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MAY 19, 2009
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LUDLOW MAN SENTENCED TO 111 MONTHS FOR COUNTERFEITING, SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD AND IDENTITY THEFT
BOSTON, MA - A Ludlow man was sentenced late yesterday in federal court for conspiracy to counterfeit U.S. currency, counterfeiting U.S. currency, possessing counterfeit U.S. currency, possessing a digital image of U.S. currency with the intent to defraud, possessing a Social Security card with the intent to alter it and aggravated identity theft.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks, Steven Ricciardi, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, David Taylor, Acting United States Marshal for the District of Massachusetts and Jeff Paula, Special Agent in Charge of the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Social Security Administration - Office of Investigations, Boston Field Division, announced today that ALDO PERSICHILLI, age 39, formerly of Ludlow, Massachusetts, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to 111 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, a $258,500 money judgment and forfeiture of the computer media used in his crimes.
Evidence presented during the five- day trial proved that on or about February 2, 2007, in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, PERSICHILLI possessed a portable safe that contained, among other items, counterfeiting paraphernalia, a Social Security card in the name of another person and six copies of his own birth certificate, three of which were altered. Also on February 2, 2007, the PERSICHILLI possessed a laptop computer that contained counterfeiting paraphernalia, two copies of the Social Security card that had been digitally altered, a copy of his own driver’s license that was also digitally altered and a manual entitled “How To Change Your Identity.” PERSICHILLI had previously pled guilty to conspiracy to counterfeit U.S. currency, counterfeiting U.S. currency, possessing counterfeit U.S. currency and possessing a digital image of U.S. currency with the intent to defraud.
The case was investigated by the United States Secret Service, United States Marshals Service and the Office of Inspector General for the Social Security Administration Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney’s Steven H. Breslow and Michelle L. Dineen Jerrett of Loucks’s Springfield Branch Office.
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