A former U.S. Marine has been accused of allegedly stealing $138,798 from Navy Federal Credit Union accounts that belonged to his fellow Marines.
An Illinois grand jury in Chicago handed down a 10-count indictment July 16 against Leonard E. Parker Jr. of Calmut City, Ill. He was charged with five counts of bank fraud, four counts of fraudulent claims and one count of fraud with identification documents.
Dontreal S. Evans also was charged with three counts of bank fraud.
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When stationed with the Combat Logistics Reginment-3 in Okinawa, Japan in 2012, Parker worked as an assistant to the company clerk in his unit. That position gave him access to a 162-person roster, which listed personal information belonging to Marines, including Social Security numbers and DOBs, according to a federal investigator's affidavit.
Parker later told a Marine friend of his that the information he had access to was "gold," and that he was learning how to be an identity thief and transfer money from accounts.
He received a bad-conduct discharge for theft and making a false statement. He left the Marines in June 2013, according to the affidavit.
In April 2014, investigators at the $66 billion, Vienna, Va.-based Navy Federal Credit Union received reports of fraudulent transfers of funds from at least 38 accounts belonging to Marines who were stationed with Parker in Okinawa.
Additionally, Parker and Evans recruited and offered to pay individuals to open Navy Federal accounts and debit cards that enabled them to access accounts, according to court paper.
Parker and Evans are scheduled to be arraigned on the charges on July 27 in Chicago before U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang.
Because of its policy to not publicly comment on litigation, Navy Federal declined to comment when contacted Monday.
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Peter Strozniak
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