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April 28, 2006

Man gets 30 months for student loan scam

PROVIDENCE -- A federal judge in Providence today sentenced a Chicago man to 30 months in federal prison for using a complicated identity theft scheme to acquire $88,000 worth of student loans.

Gbadebo Adebiyi, 31, of Chicago, pleaded guilty in December to eight counts of bank fraud and one count of identity theft. Adebiyi admitted to opening accounts at a Rhode Island Citizens Bank using identities he had stolen. He then applied over the Internet for student loans totaling $88,000 using other assumed names and deposited the loan proceeds into the accounts at Citizens.

U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith ordered Adebiyi to report to prison on May 22 to begin serving his sentence.

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