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Eastern Time (GMT-5:00) | Ex-TSA agent, Atlanta police officer sentenced in lottery scheme Scam Alert: Ex-TSA agent, Atlanta police officer sentenced in lottery schemeRating:A Douglasville, Ga., man must serve 27 months in prison and one year of supervised release after pleading guilty for his role in a Jamaican-based fraudulent lottery scheme targeting senior-adult victims in the United States. Dominic Hugh Smith, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. of the Western District of North Carolina. Smith was ordered to pay $724,408.79 in restitution, the U.S. Justice Department said in a prepared statement. In June 2014, Smith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the conduct of telemarketing. Prior to pleading guilty, Smith had been employed both as a Transportation Security Administration agent and an Atlanta Police Department police officer, the Justice Department said. As part of his guilty plea, Smith acknowledged that had the case gone to trial, the government would have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that from December 2010 through at least April 2012, he was a member of a conspiracy in which elderly victims were informed by telephone that they had won a large amount of money and prizes in a lottery and were induced to pay bogus fees in advance of receiving their purported lottery winnings, the Justice Department added. Victims sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Smith in the United States, the agency said. The prosecution is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s effort, working with federal, state and local law enforcement, to combat lottery fraud schemes from Jamaica preying on American citizens, the Justice Department said. Americans have lost tens of millions of dollars to fraudulent foreign lotteries, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Atlanta Business Chronicle
Simpsonville United States Member #163184 January 22, 2015 2439 Posts Offline | What happens to these crooks that are told to pay restitution and don't? There's probably very little of that money left. | | |
adelaide sa Australia Member #37135 April 11, 2006 3340 Posts Offline | theyre a little smarter with their money than their victims. " Still swinging, still missing "
2014 = -1016; 2015= -1409; 2016 = -1171; 2017 = -1257 ; 2018 = - 1380 = TOT = - 6233 keno historic = -2291 ; 2015= -603; 2016= -424; 2017 =-427; 2018= -223 TOT = -3968 : | | |
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New Jersey United States Member #17842 June 28, 2005 139625 Posts Online | You did the Crime: Now you got to do the Time!  A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions!
Catch-22: A dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges: When the republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. | | |
NY United States Member #23834 October 16, 2005 4339 Posts Offline | "ordered to pay $724,408.79 in restitution" I'm not in favor of debtors' prisons, but I'd have no problems with sentencing him to the shorter of life without parole or making complete restitution. | | |
Egg Harbor twp.south Jersey shore United States Member #112964 June 29, 2011 4136 Posts Offline | 27 months and restitution ? that's all ? thrown em in prison now. Clock on 27 months should start after restitution is paid in full ! Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds -- Charles Mackay LL.D. | | |
LAS VEGAS United States Member #47728 November 22, 2006 7190 Posts Offline | 27 months and restitution ? that's all ? thrown em in prison now. Clock on 27 months should start after restitution is paid in full ! 
Perhaps criminals can start paying off the restitution to victims by working it off while in prison instead of using their time acquiring law degrees to enabling the offenders find ways of shortening or overturning their sentences ??? Eddessa_Night | | |
Painesville, Ohio United States Member #117714 October 12, 2011 215 Posts Offline | LO L I personally believe he should do no Jail time. Any greedy idiot that is willing to fall for such a scam deserves to be parted from his/her money. If you did not enter a lottery then you know you haven't won, especially if you have to send money which is a huge red flag. The so-called victims should go to jail for being a part of a scheme. | | |
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Zeta Reticuli Star System United States Member #30469 January 17, 2006 11537 Posts Offline | What happens to these crooks that are told to pay restitution and don't? There's probably very little of that money left. Statistically, nothing. Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners. 
There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers. | | |
United States Member #4877 May 30, 2004 5289 Posts Offline | Statistically speaking......Congrat'$ to Officer Smith 4 raking in hundreds of thousands off lottery and moon-lighting a government job at same time! That must take skill that psyko can never ever expect to acquire, cause after years and many hours plus many dollar'$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ still can't bust out of the lottery any money close to what his United States based Operation cashed and happly SPENT$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ | | |
nc United States Member #99516 October 26, 2010 380 Posts Offline | LO L I personally believe he should do no Jail time. Any greedy idiot that is willing to fall for such a scam deserves to be parted from his/her money. If you did not enter a lottery then you know you haven't won, especially if you have to send money which is a huge red flag. The so-called victims should go to jail for being a part of a scheme. so, because you are a victim, you should go to jail? Really? Why? Senior citizens have worked hard all their lives. They have aged and as a part of that. Process, their brains dont work that well. Brain fog on simple terms. These people prey on them because of this. That is why most scams are against the elderly. Hope you dont have to experience this but then ahain sometimes it takes experiencing it to understand. | | |
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In front of my computer. United States Member #90247 April 24, 2010 9871 Posts Offline | Twenty seven months. Hmm... With time off for good behavior, it will probably be 18 months at the very most.
And unless he goes back to scamming when he gets out, restitution will probably never happen. "You can observe a lot just by watching." Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player.
The numbers will tell you what numbers to play. Pay attention to the numbers. | | |
NY United States Member #121957 January 21, 2012 3169 Posts Offline | This guy will do it again. That's why they should tattoo "American" on his forehead and dump him in Syria. | | |
South Carolina United States Member #77165 July 15, 2009 897 Posts Offline | 1-The sentence is not long enough--should be at least 5 years in prison. 2-A certain amount of greed on the victim's part allowed this to happen. All elderly people are not senile. American Greed is one of my favorite tv shows. I am always surprised at someone who worked 30-40 years and managed to save say $400,000 then just give it to some con man. | | |
Simpsonville United States Member #163184 January 22, 2015 2439 Posts Offline | This guy will do it again. That's why they should tattoo "American" on his forehead and dump him in Syria. OMG I laughed so hard on that one. Just like the prisoners that tatooed the name of the little girl some trash raped...right on his forehead. | | |
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