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Local woman charged for making a false statement on a student loan application
PADUCAH, KY - Anastacia Dominique Vega-Candelario, age 39, of Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, in Christian County, was sentenced to 1 day imprisonment in United States District Court, Paducah, Kentucky, for making false statements to a financial institution and committing bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today. Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell, United States District Court, also sentenced Vega-Candelario to 5 years supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system. In addition, restitution in the amount of $68,655.29 was imposed. Vega-Candelario had pled guilty on October 27, 2009 and admitted that on or about February 1, 2003, she knowingly made a false statement in loan application documents for the purpose of influencing a federally-insured financial institution in the Western District of Louisiana, when she knew that she had falsely used a social security account number that was not her own, in order to obtain approval for the loan. Vega-Candelario further admitted that from about January 25, 2003 to on or about March 23, 2006, she knowingly executed or attempted to execute a scheme to defraud and to obtain money and funds in the custody and control of a federally-insured financial institution in the Western District of Louisiana, through her knowing use of a false social security account number and other false documents, in order to obtain approval of loan proceeds. The funds and proceeds were sought as student loans for herself and her husband. The amount of the financial aid obtained from the false statements and fraud was $68,655.29. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David Sparks, and it was investigated by the United States Department of Education, Office of the Inspector General. |
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Assumptions Galore said on Wednesday, Feb 10 at 3:17 PM
1. You can't tell anything about someone by their last name. Mine is Perez, and I and blonde-haired, blue eyed, and my parents are as white as they come. My husband's last name is Perez. The article mentions that she is married. 2. It's not only "aliens" who steal other people's SSN's for fraud. Lots of "Real Americans" do it as well. Criminal is criminal, it is not bound by race. 3. Most of the companies that I've seen leave haven't gone to Mexico, but to China and India. I'm with you on the outrage part, but you have it directed to the wrong people. It is the government taxing businesses out of existence and driving them out of the country and the greed of the execs that are just interested in lining their pockets and building their "golden parachutes" that are the real problem.
37382269Spell checker anyone? said on Tuesday, Feb 9 at 4:46 PM
You would think that the news (of all people) would spell check/check punctuation in their articles to ensure that they at least appear intelligent?
37315063Anonymous said on Tuesday, Feb 9 at 4:45 PM
I don't think we should categorize anyone by thier last name. Criminals come with all types of last names. Let's not generalize. It is akin to stating that since the man who robbed the bank had brown hair, all brown haired men are bank robbers and all bank robbers are brown haired men. It is faulty logic.
37314821Billy Blanco said on Tuesday, Feb 9 at 10:46 AM
LOL @ Plueral spelling and LOL @ Real American!
37279631Anonymous said on Tuesday, Feb 9 at 2:43 AM
@Real American, if it was so "easy" for her to get the loan, then why did she have to give fake information? You are contradicting your own train of thought there in an effort to pin it on the foreigners. Also, you might have noticed no mention of deportion, which kind of makes your whole spew look stupid.
37263261Real American said on Monday, Feb 8 at 11:50 PM
I think by the last name that this is just another example of people coming from other coutries and taking advantage of our tax payers in OUR country. Why is it so easy for "aliens" to get financial help such as tax breaks and small business loans and no taxes for a couple years when we have hungry people and REAL AMERICANS who are having their homes taken becaseu all their jobs have been sent to Mexico but that is not good enough for mexicans. They now come here and take the jobs that we have. Does anyone else see the problem? and they call it fair trade. Well if we dont have the money to buy the items mexicans are making at a lower cost because the mexicans have our jobs then what is the point anyway? Anyone else see the problem here?
37259232ANON. said on Monday, Feb 8 at 11:37 PM
ITS PEOPLE LIKE HER THAT MAKES GETTING LOANS HARDER TO GET. AND ONLY 1 DAY IN JAIL, COME ON!!! THE LAWS REALLY NEED TO BE CHANGED, NOT ONLY ON THIS BUT ON A LOT OF OTHER THINGS. WE NEED TO WRITE TO OUR SENATORS,CONGRESSMEN PRESIDENT,ETC. IF NOT THIS AND ALL THE OTHERS WILL CONTINUE. PLEASE TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AND WRITE, WRITE AND WRITE. I ALREADY HAVE!!!!
37258802Anonymous said on Monday, Feb 8 at 11:22 PM
Don't you mean plural? :-)
37258122Anonymous said on Monday, Feb 8 at 10:33 PM
the word "WOMEN" is plueral.
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