TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A Tyler woman under federal indictment for participating in a money laundering scheme will avoid jail time and must pay back more than $100,000.
In a plea deal before District Judge J. Campbell Barker at the federal courthouse in Tyler, Tracey Lynn Brookshier had one charge dismissed and for a second count was given 36 months probation, a waived fine and also was ordered to pay $138,265.80 in restitution.
Brookshier
was arrested in 2020 after federal prosecutors said Brookshier, and at
least five others indicted, would “target seniors here at home through
believable scams designed to rob them of hard-earned savings”. Allegedly
they formed call centers and contacted victims, some of whom were
located in the Eastern District of Texas, directly targeting elder
victims to transfer funds to the defendants and other co-conspirators.
The indictment claims that they impersonated Social Security
Administration and IRS/Department of Treasury officials. Brookshier was
charged with a money laundering conspiracy and operation of an
unlicensed money transmitting business.
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