ID thefts’‘Bonnie’ sentenced
Published 5:00 am Monday, October 20, 2008
PHILADELPHIA — Jocelyn Kirsch — half of Philadelphia’s infamous pair of identity-theft scammers known as “Bonnie and Clyde” — was sentenced recently to five years in prison by a judge who said her crimes were born of “greed and a desire to fuel a lavish lifestyle.”
Kirsch, 23, had benefited from “the best that America can offer — good schools, an opportunity to grow up in a safe environment,” said U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno. And yet she “visited harm on at least 50 victims,” many of them friends and colleagues.
He ordered Kirsch to pay $100,000 in restitution and undergo mental health treatment in prison.