United States v. Rutley

ORDER

Mervyn Rutley was charged with defrauding financial institutions using stolen identities. The scheme began in 1996 when Rutley began cashing his deceased father’s erroneously issued pension checks from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and it ended when Rutley was arrested in 2009, by which time he had opened many bank accounts and lines of credit in other people’s names, including his father’s. He *177pleaded not guilty, but following a jury trial he was convicted of all charges: eleven counts of bank fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1344, one count of wire fraud, id. § 1343, and twelve counts of…