United States Attorney's Office District of Connecticut
Press Release

FORMER CONNECTICUT RESIDENT WHO FALSIFIED STUDENT LOAN APPLICATIONS IS SENTENCED

Kevin J. O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KHUE T. DeLEON, 32, of Houston, Texas, and formerly of Manchester, Connecticut, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to one day of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, the first six months of which DeLEON must spend in a halfway house and the following six months of which she must spend confined to her home.  On September 27, 2005, DeLEON waived indictment and pleaded guilty to making false statements on a student loan application.

According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, on September 20, 2004, DeLEON signed and submitted a fraudulent bank loan application seeking a $30,000 non-government backed student loan.  DeLEON has acknowledged that she knowingly made false statements in order to influence the action of the bank, including falsely stating that her father-in-law was a cosigner on the loan.  As proof of income, DeLEON submitted with the application a false pay statement purportedly from her father-in-law’s employer, and then forged her father-in-law’s signature on the application.  As a result of the false statements on this bank loan application and four others that DeLEON submitted, Bank One approved approximately $135,000 in student loans.

Today, DeLEON also admitted that she knowingly submitted false medical documents to the United States Probation Office in relation to today’s sentencing proceeding.

This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Anastasia Enos King.

CONTACT:

U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Tom Carson
(203) 821-3722
thomas.carson@usdoj.gov