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Feds Bust Cops Who Cleaned up Credit Histories by Filing Falsified Police Reports

posted by n1 on Friday May 22 2015, @09:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the goldman-sachs-does-it-better dept.

McGruber writes:

For a few very profitable years, Vanessa and Mario Perez made more than $322,000 by clearing up the blemished credit reports of people with bad bill-paying histories, almost as if by magic.

Federal authorities say the Perezes had a secret weapon: a network of dirty Miami-Dade County, Florida police officers, who wrote 215 falsified police reports. The Perezes used these falsified police reports to claim their customers were victims of identity theft when the customers were not.

The false ID theft claims provided the Perezes' clients with an official excuse for their bad credit histories so they could get negative items removed from their reports. In turn, the customers could boost their credit scores with reporting agencies such as Equifax and obtain credit cards, loans and other financing again.

Vanessa Perez was previously convicted of absentee ballot fraud (along with dozens of others) after Miami's infamous 1997 election.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday May 22 2015, @06:30PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Friday May 22 2015, @06:30PM (#186587)

    Not really. They got caught. In a totally broken system, no-one gets in trouble for being corrupt.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday May 23 2015, @01:26AM

    by edIII (791) on Saturday May 23 2015, @01:26AM (#186736)

    Noooo..... in a totally broken system, no-one high up ever gets in trouble for being corrupt. That's the nature of a corrupt system; it protects those performing the corruption.

    When a sitting U.S President is convicted of treason, or a U.S Senator (nearly all of them) are convicted for treason, or hell, just a single big fish on Wall Street receiving big black cock in Federal.Pound.Me.In.The.Ass.Prison ....... then maybe the system isn't irreparably corrupt.

    Until then, I'm not impressed when they make examples out of small time fraudsters, but let the big ones go that can make appearances on national TV educating us about how the economy works.

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    • (Score: 2) by bziman on Saturday May 23 2015, @03:41PM

      by bziman (3577) on Saturday May 23 2015, @03:41PM (#186886)

      ...receiving big black cock in Federal.Pound.Me.In.The.Ass.Prison ....... then maybe the system isn't irreparably corrupt.

      I think you're confused. Rape as a form of punishment IS a sign of a system that is irreparably corrupt. That our system actually permits and encourages rape as a form of punishment is a strong indicator that our system of justice has completely failed in every meaningful way.