A Huntington Beach man, Muhammed Drammeh, was sentenced to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud.
Drammeh’s sentence is to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Drammeh and his co-conspirators engaged in a bank fraud and identity theft scheme that targeted individuals and banks in Arizona, Colorado, and California. The co-conspirators unlawfully and without authorization used victims’ personal identifying information and fraudulent identifications to open phony business accounts linked to the victims’ legitimate bank accounts. The two then transferred the victims’ funds from the victims’ legitimate bank accounts to the phony business bank accounts created and controlled by the co-conspirators.
Once the victims’ funds were transferred to the phony business accounts, the co-conspirators withdrew the fraudulently obtained proceeds in cash at financial institutions and casinos.
Drammeh recruited other co-conspirators to impersonate victims using stolen identities and provided them fake identifications to further the scheme.
Drammeh supervised at least one or more co-conspirators when they opened fraudulent accounts in victims’ names and withdrew the funds from banks and casinos.
Arizona, Colorado, and California… cannibalistic