PORTLAND — A Lisbon man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to four years in prison for stealing federal money and other federal crimes.
Mark Judd, 34, also was sentenced in Maine’s U.S. District Court on convictions of Social Security fraud, making false statements to a financial institution and aggravated identity theft, according to a statement released by U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.
Following his prison term, Judd will be on supervised release. He was ordered by Judge George Z. Singal to pay more than $29,000 in restitution to the victims of his crimes.
Judd pleaded guilty to the charges in January.
Between 2004 and 2011, Judd used Social Security numbers that were not assigned to him to open lines of credit at several financial institutions, according to court records. From 2010 to 2012, he used the Social Security number of his minor child on job applications, then failed to report wages earned under his child’s Social Security number to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in connection with his receipt of welfare and housing benefits. Judd received those benefits of federal money illegally as a result, according to Delahanty’s written release.
The case was investigated by the offices of the inspector generals for the U.S. Department of Health and the USDA, the Social Security Administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and Maine DHHS.
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