WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Secret Service issued the following press release:
NEW YORK - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, announced today that LAQUAN WILLIAMS, a/k/a "China Man" was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 200 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain for orchestrating a series of schemes to steal money from banks by sending imposters into bank branches to transfer money from victim bank accounts or to cash stolen U.S. Treasury checks. These schemes involved WILLIAMS's possession of over 1,000 stolen or counterfeit checks, his manufacturing of over 500 counterfeit state and federal identification cards, at least $1.8 million i...