In Dorchester case, investigators came for the bank fraud, stayed for the child porn

A Dorchester man was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail today following his indictment on 34 counts in Suffolk Superior Court, mostly involving an alleged scheme to defraud banks of several hundred thousand dollars, but also on a child-porn charge for a video prosecutors say he had on his phone.

Should John Wilson, 49, make bail, he will have to wear a GPS device, surrender his passport, stay away from children and schools and refrain from opening any bank accounts, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

According to the DA's office:

Wilson allegedly used the personal identifying information of three customers of an Ohio-based bank in order to cause the bank to issue checks to Wilson and to a shell company he operated during August of 2015. He additionally attempted to make wire transfers from two of those accounts totaling $78,967 but was blocked from doing so. An IP address used during these transactions was linked to Wilson.

In addition, a fraudulent check of $1,000 issued on the account of an Idaho fire department was deposited into Wilson’s account that same month, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors allege that Wilson also fraudulently obtained 16 business credit cards during 2016. He allegedly posed as the accountholders on business credit accounts and requested that new cards be issued in the name of Wilson, who was identified in the requests as a new employee. Ten of the 16 cards were then used to make cash advances totaling $303,700. Most of the proceeds were wired to individuals in Turkey and Ghana.

In 2015, Wilson allegedly took part in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns in the names of taxpayers without their consent. As a result of these fraudulent returns, the Internal Revenue Service issued a total of $72,750 in refunds, all of which were deposited into bank accounts held by Wilson. ...

During the course of the investigation by Boston Police and Suffolk prosecutors, Wilson consented to a search of his cell phone on Oct. 3, 2016. The device was found to contain a video depicting explicit sexual images of children.

Innocent, etc.