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Source   bp holdings, bp oil fraud scheme   An FBI press release today, July 3, 2013, reports that 3 more people have been charged with trying to illegally take money from the BP Oil Spill recovery fund. This brings the total to eight charged for this scheme. The first 5 have pled guilty earlier. The USAO reports that Jeremy Jamal Bell, 24; Anthony Keith Bivins, 42, both of Birmingham; and Cametrica L. Menifield, 31, of Bessemer, are charged with conspiring in 2011 to participate in a scheme to defraud the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. These three defendants, together received $138,881 from the BP oil spill claims funds.   All three defendants have signed plea agreements with the government expressing their intention to plead guilty to the charges.   Bell, Bivins, and Menifield are each charged with independently agreeing to provide personal information, such as Social Security numbers and bank account information, to individuals who recruited them so that they could use the information to file fraudulent claims for lost wages with the GCCF. The recruiters are not named in the charging documents. After the fraudulent claims were paid to Bell, Bivins, and Menifield, each of them returned part of the money to the individuals who recruited them to participate in the scheme, according to the informations and plea agreements. (FBI press release)   Bell, Bivins and Menifield are each charged with independently agreeing to provide personal information, such as Social Security numbers and bank account information, to individuals who recruited them so that they could use the information to file fraudulent claims for lost wages with the GCCF.   After the fraudulent claims were paid to Bell, Bivins and Menifield, each of them allegedly returned part of the money to the individuals who recruited them to participate in the scheme, according to the informations and plea agreements.   According to the court documents the GCCF paid Bell $42,877 from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust Fund on Aug. 9, 2011. Later that month, Bell withdrew $42,402 from his account and gave it to the person who recruited him to participate in the scheme, according to the documents.   Bivins received about $61,987 in claim funds in October 2011. On Oct. 29, 2011, according to his information and plea agreement, he cashed the claims check, used some of it to buy money orders and a prepaid $5,000 debit card, as directed, and turned it all over to a co-conspirator.He was given $5,000 and the prepaid debit card in return.   Menifield received about $34,023 from the GCCF on July 21, 2011, according to her information and plea agreement. On July 22, 2011, she gave about $24,000 to a co-defendant and kept about $10,000, according to the court documents.

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