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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Philly man sentenced in New York on federal identity theft charges

ALBANY, NY – Federal, New York and Town of Colonie Police Department officials Wednesday announced that Nelson Slaughter, 43, of Philadelphia, was sentenced in US District Court in Albany on five felony counts.

The convictions related to an identity theft scheme perpetrated by Slaughter and others from the Philadelphia area that has victimized elderly women through the United States, including several from the upstate New York region.

He was was sentenced for one count of mail fraud, one count of identification document fraud, one count of mailing a threatening communication, and two counts of aggravated identity theft.

Judge Sharpe sentenced Slaughter to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 51months for the mail and identification document fraud counts and for the charge of mailing a threatening communication. A term of 24 months was imposed for each of the aggravated identity theft charges, to be served concurrently to each other, but consecutive to the other counts. In total, he will serve 75 months in prison.

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