On Friday, a grand jury indicted two persons for targeting seriously ill veterans for fraud.
U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman announced that 46-year-old Darryl Lamont Young, a current inmate in the King County Jail and his accomplice 27-year-old Aqueelah Ngiesha Williams, plead guilty in federal court.
“The conduct in this case is truly shocking – calling medical facilities and seriously ill veterans under the pretense of being a VA employee trying to provide the ill veteran with financial benefits. In reality, these two were seeking personal and financial information to defraud the veteran,” said U.S. Attorney Gorman. “While they did not get a huge amount of money with this scheme, the harm they caused to those already suffering a health crisis, is deserving of federal prosecution.”
According to the indictment, Young, having previously served in the military, took his knowledge of support services offered to veterans to make calls from jail to veteran facilities. Young pretended to be a VA employee to gain information about veterans in the Intensive Care Unit.