SANTA ANA, Calif.—The purported leader of a Romanian organized crime group was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison for identity theft in a scheme to steal money from public assistance accounts with cloned cards.
Florin Duduianu, 39, whose last known address was in Mission Viejo, was convicted of two counts of aggravated identity theft in a non-jury bench trial before U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb Jan. 23.
Before the bench trial, Duduianu pleaded guilty Jan. 5 to three counts of bank fraud and a count of unlawful use of unauthorized access devices.
Holcomb ordered the defendant to pay $1,850 in restitution….