A northern California man who served as an information and document vendor in the identity theft and credit card fraud ring known as Carder.su was sentenced yesterday to serve 100 months in federal prison. He was further ordered to pay approximately $50.5 million in restitution.
Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada, and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Michael Harris of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in Las Vegas made the announcement. U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon of the District of Nevada imposed the sentence.
"Carder.su is a criminal organization, and we used the same mob-busting laws and investigative techniques we’ve used with other organized crime networks to dismantle the fraud ring," said Assistant Attorney General Caldwell. "The new face of organized crime is largely cyber-based, and this case demonstrates the department’s ability to pursue members of these organizations wherever we find them."
"The structure of the Carder.su organization was sophisticated and designed to prevent attack by rival organizations and to avoid detection by law enforcement," said U.S. Attorney Bogden. "Its members had defined roles and were responsible for the theft of over $50 million. We are working diligently with our law enforcement partners to ensure that the people who commit these high-tech crimes are put out of business."
Makyl Haggerty, aka "Wave" and "G5," 24, of Oakland, Calif., admitted in his plea agreement that in December 2009, he became associated with the Carder.su organization, a criminal enterprise whose members trafficked in compromised credit card account data and counterfeit identifications, and committed money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and various types of computer crime.
Haggerty operated as a vendor on the organization’s websites using the "Wave" and "G5" nicknames, and sold approximately 1,000 counterfeit identification documents and counterfeit credit cards to other Carder.su members. He manufactured and sold counterfeit driver’s licenses for at least 15 states and British Columbia.
The cases were investigated by HSI and the U.S. Secret Service, and are being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Jonathan Ophardt of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kimberly M. Frayn and Andrew W. Duncan of the District of Nevada.
This prosecution is part of efforts underway by President Barack Obama’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes.
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Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: Cybercrime|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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