New York tax Fraudster Sentenced to 12 years in Prison for Child Data Theft Ring

A court in the United States has sentenced New York resident Ariel Jimenez to 12 years in prison for stealing the identities of thousands of children on welfare and using those identities to falsely claim tax credits on behalf of his customers.

The clients of Jimenez exploited the stolen identity data which included names, dates of birth, and social security numbers to add the children fraudulently as dependents on their tax returns to receive a refund when they filed their taxes.

Ariel Jimenez, 38, of the Bronx, New York started the fraud ring in 2007 and is believed to have made millions of dollars. With the assistance of his co-conspirators, Jimenez began to sell the identities of hundreds of vulnerable children (siphoned by a New York City’s Human Resources Administration fraud investigator) to thousands of people profiting from this fraudulent operation.

“While working at the HRA, CW-1 obtained children’s names and identifying information from the Welfare Management System and sold those names to [..] the defendant,” court documents explained. The investigation by IRS-CI has

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