A Norfolk woman has been sentenced to 129 months in prison for operating multiple fraud schemes that included stealing the identities of local prisoners, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Teresa Gallop, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mark S. Davis for her role in two sophisticated frauds. The first scheme involved Gallop creating a fake legal services company to lure inmates of local jails into disclosing their identifying information and releasing their personal property.
Gallop used her son, who was serving multiple state sentences for theft, to identify and prime inmate victims. Once she had their information and property, she forged powers of attorney naming her conspirators as attorneys in fact for the inmates. Gallop and her co-conspirators then used these documents to access and open inmate bank accounts, which they used to cash worthless checks.
The total intended loss for the first scheme exceeds $130,000. In the second fraud, Gallop recruited others to open bank accounts at several financial institutions, which she then used to negotiate checks she had stolen from the mail and elsewhere.
The funds were ultimately disbursed to herself in a variety of transactions. Gallop was released from federal prison less than a month before undertaking these new frauds. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kaitlin C. Gratton.
Gallop was also charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. She was sentenced to 129 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Gallop’s co-conspirators, Delanio Vick, Jessie Davis, Aaren Ivey, and Gloria Vick, are also facing charges in connection with the scheme.
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Key Facts
- State: Virginia
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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