A Northern Virginia man has been sentenced to nine years and three months in prison for scamming his girlfriend, relatives and others out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and improperly accessing national-security databases through four separate fraud schemes.
David L. Parker, 50, pleaded guilty to multiple fraud charges in February and was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria.
He committed four distinct, wide-ranging scams stretching back to 2006, according to prosecutors and court documents. The fraudulent ploys victimized his grandparents, daughter and girlfriend, involved fictitious investment opportunities and employment contracts with the French government, and breached U.S. government databases.
In total, his relatives, friends and financial institutions lost more than $300,000 as a result of the schemes, prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum.
Court records say he used the names of his elderly grandparents and Social Security number of his teenage daughter, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, to fraudulently obtain 17 credit cards and make more than $70,000 in purchases with them.
In another scam, he convinced two people, including a close friend, 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. He also convinced a girlfriend to give him $90,000 so he could get out of a non-existent employment contract with the French government and lied about his experience in the intelligence field to get a government consulting job that gave him improper access to National Security Agency databases, according to court documents.
