Mr. Schiff: Check time. The
FBI in the Midwest began looking at
strange bankruptcy cases …
Mr. Wolverton: "Looking at
a wide variety of criminal referrals,
we targeted cases that had the most
egregious examples of fraudulent conduct."
Mr. Schiff: Special Agent Randy
Wolverton of the FBI's Economic Crimes
Unit…
Mr. Wolverton: "More specifically
fraudulent information being submitted
to the bankruptcy court system."
Mr. Schiff: In one case, Wolverton
says a man used a different social
security numbers than his own…
Mr. Wolverton: "Once we started
looking at the case, we found a wider
pattern of activity where this individual
had filed for bankruptcy in different
jurisdictions."
Mr. Schiff: The subject filed
phony forms for loans and Wolverton
says the man bilked various institutions
of more than $100,000…
Mr. Wolverton: "Federally
insured financial institutions; the
U.S. Social Security Administration;
the U.S. Department of Education was
involved with this because we found
a falsified college diploma that was
used in this."
Mr. Schiff: The end result?
Two years in a cell at a federal prison.
I'm Neal Schiff of the Bureau and
that's the FBI's Closed Case of the
Week."
