CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Daniel Aaron Stone, 36, currently incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Beckley, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for aggravated identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
Stone admitted to having social security numbers of people for the intended use of filing false tax returns. Stone pled guilty to two counts of “Aggravated Identity Theft" in March 2017. The sentence is to run consecutively to any previous sentence imposed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew R. Cogar prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Internal Revenue Service and the Special Investigative Services Unit of the Bureau of Prisons investigated.
U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley presided.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
