Va. Man Pleads Guilty to 4 Fraud Schemes | News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA) - An Alexandria man has pleaded guilty to four separate fraud schemes, including one where he admitted using credit cards in the names of his elderly grandmother and grandfather, and his daughter's Social Security number. 

Fifty-year-old David Lee Parker admitted to six charges for conducting the four fraudulent schemes since 2006. The counts included:

• one count of access device fraud,
• two counts of wire fraud,
• two counts of aggravated identity theft, and
• one count of fraud in connection with computers.

In one scheme, Parker used credit cards in the names of his elderly grandmother and grandfather, his own name and his daughter's Social Security number make more than $70,000 worth of unauthorized purchases.

In another scheme, Parker convinced two people to invest in the European franchise rights to the Hard Times Cafe and the investors lost more than $120,000.

Parker also targeted an ex-girlfriend. He convinced her to give him more than $90,000 to relieve him of an employment contract with the French government, but he never actually worked for the French government or paid the French government.

Parker also admitted to misrespresenting his background and experience in the intelligence and national security fields to obtain and access to secure National Security Agency computer databases, which he used for his private financial gain to further a government consulting contract.

Parker could get up to 10 years in prison on the access device fraud count, 20 years on the wire fraud counts, mandatory minimum sentences of two years on the aggravated identity theft counts, and five years on the fraud in connection with computers count.

He will be sentenced on May 23.