Two men were sentenced on Sept. 30 to federal prison for their roles in selling data that was used in mass-mailing fraud schemes targeting vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly.
Robert Reger, 57, of Boulder, Colorado, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while David Lytle, 64, of Leawood, Kansas, received a four-year sentence.
Both men were convicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, along with multiple counts of mail fraud and wire fraud, following a two-week trial.
The scheme spanned over a decade, during which Reger and Lytle, both former employees of Epsilon Data Management LLC, were found to have sold lists of U.S. consumers’ information to fraudsters….