Man sentenced for credit card fraud

The United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced that Brendan Mooney, 25, of Delmar, New York, was sentenced Friday to three years imprisonment, to be followed by a period of three years supervised release.

The sentence was handed down in United States District Court in Utica based on Mooney's plea in July 2006 to both counts of an indictment charging him with credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. Mooney also was ordered to make restitution in the total amount of $78,729 to the credit card companies that were the victims of his scheme.

According to the indictment and additional information made public at the court proceedings in the case, Mooney used his father's social security number and other identifying information, without his father's knowledge or permission, to obtain seven credit cards that he used $78,000 worth of goods in Albany County, other areas of New York, as well as in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee.

Among the items Mooney admitted obtaining was a 2005 Dodge Dakota pick-up truck that he purchased with three of the fraudulently obtained credit cards at an automobile dealership in Colonie, New York.