Feds bust ID traffickers

[pwaldo]

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/203...#disqus_thread

The Justice Department on Wednesday charged 50 people for conspiring to make, sell and traffic illegal IDs.

In an indictment unsealed in Puerto Rico, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced that it had dismantled one of the largest fraudulent identification trafficking rings in the United States.

Hundreds of identities were illegally sold to undocumented aliens from 2009 to 2011, according to the indictment.

For as much as $2,500, people in the United States illegally attempted to purchase the identification documents of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens, including Social Security cards, birth certificates, and state driver's licenses, according to the announcement by DOJ.

None of the people who tried to buy the illegal IDs are suspected of attempting to carry out terrorist activities, though neither Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton nor Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the DOJ’s Criminal Division said how many of the successfully sold and trafficked IDs were still at large.

[angel0430]

I am from Puerto Rico and this is crazy. The funny thing is that they were not stealing the information, the owners of the information were the ones selling it. This were people that had addcitions or needed the money really bad.