{"id":164,"date":"2005-12-23T20:36:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/nigerian-pleads-guilty-in-choicepoint-abuse\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T02:05:25","slug":"nigerian-pleads-guilty-in-choicepoint-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/nigerian-pleads-guilty-in-choicepoint-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Pleads Guilty in ChoicePoint Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting that a Nigerian national has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and grand theft in a case involving an identity theft ring that obtained consumer data from provider ChoicePoint.<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olatunji Oluwatosin, 42, of North Hollywood, Calif., was indicted by a grand jury in August on 22 counts of identity theft, conspiracy, grand theft and credit card fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Oluwatosin pleaded guilty on Tuesday and is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his indictment, prosecutors said the scheme cost at least $4 million in damages and involved 16 victims and five banks or credit card companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full AP article @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/content\/business\/1205\/22choice.html\">Nigerian pleads guilty in ChoicePoint case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is reporting that a Nigerian national has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and grand theft in a case involving an identity theft ring that obtained consumer data from provider ChoicePoint. From the article &#8212; Olatunji Oluwatosin, 42, of North Hollywood, Calif., was indicted by a grand jury in August on 22 counts of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/nigerian-pleads-guilty-in-choicepoint-abuse\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Nigerian Pleads Guilty in ChoicePoint Abuse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-identity-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}