A Northern Virginia man has pleaded guilty to perpetrating four separate fraud schemes that bilked their victims, including his relatives and girlfriend, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past six years.
Prosecutors said 50-year-old David L. Parker pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to charges of access device fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and fraud in connection with computers.
Prosecutors said the Alexandria resident admitted to four distinct, wide-ranging scams that he had conducted stretching back to 2006. According to prosecutors, the fraudulent ploys victimized his grandparents and girlfriend, involved fictitious investment opportunities and employment contracts with the French government, and breached U.S. government databases.
In one scheme, prosecutors said, Parker fraudulently obtained a number of credit cards using the names of his elderly grandparents and his teenage daughter’s Social Security number. He then used the credit cards to make more than $70,000 unauthorized purchases, prosecutors said.
In another scam, he told lies to convince two people to invest in the European franchise rights to a cafe; the victims lost more than $120,000 in the investment because of Parker’s misrepresentations.
In the third scam, Parker convinced an ex-girlfriend to give him more than $90,000 because he said he needed the money in order to get out of an employment contract with the French government, according to prosecutors. But the contract did not exist and he had no position with the government.
The final fraud involved making misrepresentations about his experience in intelligence and national security fields in order to get improper access to National Security Agency databases, which he then used to further a government consulting contract for his own financial gain, prosecutors said.
Parker was charged this week with a six-count criminal information, a document that can only be filed with a defendant’s consent and indicates that he had been cooperating with prosecutors. He could face a total of more than 50 years behind bars when he is sentenced by District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee on May 23.
His attorney could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.
