BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A South Dakota man has sentenced to five years and three months in prison for writing bad checks using 11 different identities throughout the Dakotas.
30 year-old Matthew Kurtenbach of Rapid City was sentenced on February 3 in U.S. District Court in Rapid City. He was ordered to pay more than $60,000 in restitution.
The Social Security Administration says Kurtenbach was released from the Wyoming State Penitentiary in 2008 on an appeal bond from an identity theft conviction. The agency says that within a month of his release, Kurtenbach opened a fraudulent checking account in Rapid City and began writing bad checks in North Dakota and South Dakota.
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