United States of America v. Chouby Charleron

Camden, New Jersey, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Reported by Kent Morlan

Chouby Charleron, 27, of Severn, Maryland, accessed and obtained the PII of thousands of unwitting individuals and then sold that PII to a network of co-conspirators through interstate wires using a web-based encrypted messaging application that users could access on their cellphones. Charleron was the administrator of a chat group that advertised the sale of PII to prospective co-conspirators. Charleron sold the PII, including Social Security numbers, of more than 5,000 victims to multiple co-conspirators. Charleron sold the PII with the knowledge that his co-conspirators would use the PII to, among other things, defraud or attempt to default the victims whose PII had been stolen.

In addition to the prison term, Chief Judge Bumb also ordered $102,288.18 in restitution and a term of supervised release of 2 years.

U.S. Attorney Frazer credited special agents of Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael S. McCarthy with the investigation.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dak Cohen and Alison Thompson of the Criminal Division in Camden and Newark respectively.

The Defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to 36 months in prison.