Miami Resident Rodney Fleurimond Sentenced for Identity Fraud Scheme

MIAMI – Miami-Dade resident Rodney Fleurimond, 24, has been sentenced to prison for his role in a massive identity theft and unemployment insurance fraud scheme.

Ferrer A. Wifredo, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, along with Special Agent in Charge Richard Walker from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General, and Jesse Panuccio, Executive Director of the State of Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity, announced the sentencing.

Fleurimond was sentenced to twenty-four months and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $60,405 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to one count of fraudulently using unauthorized access devices to obtain anything of value over $1,000 and one count of aggravated identity theft.

According to court records, Fleurimond accessed the unemployment insurance claims of at least 188 victims online from October 20, 2013, through June 26, 2014. He fraudulently obtained a total of $60,405 in benefits, with eleven claims being deposited into his personal checking account and twelve more into other accounts associated with him. The total loss due to Fleurimond’s offense was $142,905.

U.S. Attorney Ferrer commended the investigative efforts of OLRFI-Miami and DEO in bringing this case to justice. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jamie R. Galvin prosecuted the case.

For more information on this case, visit the website of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls, or the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.