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Rowlett, Texas Woman Sentenced to Four Years in Federal Prison for Defrauding Wachovia Bank of $526,548
Woman Must Also Forfeit Residential Property Near Columbia, South Carolina

U.S. Attorney’s Office April 28, 2009
  • Northern District of Texas (214) 659-8600

DALLAS—Desirae Clark, a/k/a Desirae Williams, Desi Rae Williams, Desi Rae Clark and Desi R. Williams, of Rowlett, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to four years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $526,548 in restitution, following her guilty plea in January 2009 to one count of bank fraud, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas.  In addition, Judge Lynn also ordered that Clark, 34, forfeit to the government her interest in a home located near Columbia, South Carolina, since the home was purchased with funds generated by Clark’s fraudulent conduct.  Clark has been in federal custody since her bond was revoked on March 9, 2009.

In August of 2008, Clark was charged in a 15-count federal indictment returned by a grand jury in Dallas with depositing or causing the deposit of 14 fraudulent checks into a line of credit account at Wachovia Bank, N.A.  The total face amount of all 14 checks totaled $2.8 million.  

In court papers filed when she pled guilty, Clark admitted that for an approximate two-week period in October 2006, she devised and executed a scheme to defraud Wachovia Bank.  As part of her plan, she falsely represented to her family and friends that she was expecting to receive a multi-million dollar inheritance. When Clark pled guilty to Count One of the indictment, she only admitted that she personally deposited, or caused someone else to deposit, four fraudulent checks of various amounts totaling $256,000 into a line of credit account at Wachovia Bank, so that she and others could have access to these funds.  At today’s sentencing hearing, the sentencing judge rejected Clark’s claim that she did not have personal knowledge of the details surrounding the deposit of the remaining 10 fraudulent checks which were deposited.

As a result of the fraudulent deposit of 14 fraudulent checks, Wachovia Bank suffered an actual loss of approximately $526,548.

The case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David L. Jarvis.

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