In­mate who posed as Ab­b­Vie pur­chas­ing of­fi­cer in $3M scam sen­tenced to 7 more years of prison

An in­mate in Geor­gia has been sen­tenced to sev­en ad­di­tion­al years in prison for run­ning a $3 mil­lion fraud scheme to steal and then re­sell heavy equip­ment from be­hind bars — by pos­ing as an Ab­b­Vie em­ploy­ee us­ing a con­tra­band cell phone.

While serv­ing a 20-year sen­tence for rack­e­teer­ing and as­sault­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, Da­mon Thomas Young was found to have giv­en him­self the fake iden­ti­ty of a pur­chas­ing of­fi­cer with Ab­b­Vie named Mor­gan Sylvia and, be­gin­ning in 2019, placed or­ders for more than $2.8 mil­lion worth of heavy con­struc­tion equip­ment.

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