Green
KINGSTON – A Kingston man faces a 27-count indictment from an Ulster County grand jury following a two-year investigation by several police agencies.
Deandre Green, 27, was charged with two counts of scheme to defraud and 25 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Between October 2016 and January 2017, he allegedly used social media to recruit people to participate in a scheme to defraud many businesses and banks in the area.
Authorities charge that he began by stealing checks from mailboxes then solicited people on social media sites to open bank accounts and provide him with their banking information. He also solicited people to provide him with a copy of their payroll check which he could use as a template to create fraudulent checks. He then attempted to deposit checks totaling $24,847 from 10 people and businesses, according to the indictment.
It is estimated that he recruited over 65 people who became involved in the scheme and attempted to deposit checks totaling almost $800,000.
The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office was assisted in the investigation by police from the cities of Kingston, Poughkeepsie, and Albany; the Town of Poughkeepsie; State Police; US Postal Inspection Service; Hudson Valley Crime Analysis Center; and Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office.
Green is currently serving a prison sentence of two to four years on a robbery conviction in Dutchess County.
