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Petersburg, VA - Inmate Guilty in Plot to steal from Swiss Bank Accounts of Holocaust victims |
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Oct 30, 2008 at 12:31 PM
News Source: Richmond Times Dispatch
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John Kenneth Leighnor Jr., 49, is facing a maximum of 26 years in prison when he's sentenced by U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer on Feb. 3.
Trim, athletic-looking and wearing a dark-striped jail uniform and ankle shackles, Leighnor quietly responded "guilty" to one count of mail fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft at a hearing this morning.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, he had been scheduled to be released from prison in January after serving time for prior, unrelated convictions. He was being held at the Federal Correctional Institute in Petersburg.
He conducted the complex scheme from April 2005 through this June. Authorities said that no money was actually stolen.
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Oct 30, 2008 at 03:17 PM Tzofnas Paneiach Says:
Looting the Swiss bank accounts of Holocaust victims? I thought it had been looted already 65 years ago! What exactly did he do?
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Oct 31, 2008 at 12:09 AM murray Says:
Put him in jail!