South Carolina Woman Drains $37,645 From Four West Virginia Bank Accounts Using Stolen Identities and Forged Signatures

A South Carolina woman is headed to prison after using other people’s identities to pull more than $37,000 out of four West Virginia bank accounts that were not hers. Della Palestino, 60, of Lexington, South Carolina, was sentenced to two years in prison and one year of supervised release for aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia says . She was also ordered to pay $47,010 in restitution for the aggravated identity theft.

Source: The Daily Hodl