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You are subscribed to USAO - New York, Southern news updates. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Two Defendants Plead Guilty To Fraud Scheme Involving Data Stolen From Hospital Patients 08/07/2025 08:00 AM EDT United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton; Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Christopher G. Raia; and Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Region of the U.S. Department of Labor Office of  Inspector General ("DOL-OIG"), Jonathan Mellone, announced today that WILKINS ESTRELLA and CHARLENE MARTE pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud in connection with using social security numbers and other personally identifiable information belonging to hundreds of victims to open debit cards and attempt to fraudulently obtain $1.6 million in pandemic relief funds from the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and the New York State Department of Labor.

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