Tampa man sentenced to 5 years for counterfeit credit cards, unemployment insurance fraud

The 30-year-old man made credit cards using stolen information and committed fraud to obtain unemployment benefits.

By Louis Llovio
| 7:20 p.m. August 1, 2022
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Tampa Bay-Lakeland

A 30-year-old Tampa man was sentenced to five years and one month in federal prison Aug. 1 for making counterfeit credit cards using the names of people whose identities had been stolen and for getting $86,804 in unemployment benefits he was not entitled to.

U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday also ordered the man, Devaris McClain, to pay $92,346.54 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Labor and several banks.