Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Loyo, Credenciales USA Fake ID Operator From Mexico Ordered To Pay $385,519.90 In Judgement

Hugo I. Loyo Cobos in background.

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Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge ordered operator of Credenciales USA to pay thousands for providing fake IDs.

By H. Nelson Goodson
May 3, 2011

Madison - On Monday, J. B. Van Hollen, Wisconsin Attorney General confirmed that Hugo I. Loyo, operator of Credenciales USA, LLC was ordered by a state court to pay $385,519.90 for providing fake ID's and international licenses to undocumented immigrants. The Wisconsin Department Of Justice (WIDOJ) had filed a lawsuit against Loyo and his company for selling fake IDs.
On April 29, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Timothy Dugan ordered Loyo to pay thousands after failing to show up in court. Loyo is currently living in Mexico and was a legal resident in the U.S.
In early December 2008, Van Hollen and the WIDOJ filed an enforcement action against Credenciales USA, LLC and its owner, Loyo (other last name used, Cobos) for the marketing and the sale of fake international driver's licenses and state identification cards in Milwaukee County. Loyo Cobos sold IDs and International Driving Permits (IDP) for $200-$400 each, the IDP actually cost $10 for translation in associations that are allowed to legally offer them.
According to the WIDOJ complaint, Credenciales USA, LLC marketed and sold purported “International Driver's Licenses” and Wisconsin “identification cards” to Milwaukee-area undocumented consumers on Spanish language radio stations in La GranD 104.7 FM, news magazines and newspapers like El Semanario de Milwaukee. Loyo had a weekly one hour show in La GranD located in West Allis. The company marketed the cards as valid forms of identification, which they were not. In addition, neither Credenciales USA, LLC nor Loyo Cobos are authorized by the state government to make or sell official identification cards.
“This company engaged in false and misleading practices in Wisconsin," Van Hollen said, “The Wisconsin Department of Justice joins the Federal Trade Commission in warning consumers to be wary of the sale of fraudulent identification cards. Drivers risk losing money and can even face criminal liability, if attempting to present fraudulent identification cards as valid driver's licenses."
The case was brought on behalf of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection and was handled by Assistant Attorney General Nelle R. Rohlich.
Today, several businesses along S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive are continuing to sell a different type, but similar fake IDs. They are selling AmeraCards that processed are provided by AmeraCard Enterprises Inc. from Stamford, Ct. Website at http://www.ameracard.com/
One of the companies is MC Multiservicios located at 1010 S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive in Milwaukee, which offers personal ID Cards through an advertisement on their own monthly magazine publication named Mi Revista Latina for last April and the May edition number 43.
Another business who is also offering secondary IDs to customers is Centro Hispano MG Income Tax at 923 S. Chavez Drive, 2nd floor. The management at MG indicated the $50 dollar ID with the customers information is sent, processed and provided by another company, who they didn't want to identify. But Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) found that MG takes a photo of the person requiring an ID and offers various versions of AmeraCards. Once ordered, the ID takes about a week for the AmeraCard company to process it and for the actual customer to get it from MG.

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