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Mercer woman charged with fraud

September 10, 2006

LEXINGTON - A Mercer County woman has been charged by the federal grand jury in Lexington with four counts of bank fraud of more than $60,000 and one count of aggravated identity theft.

Joyce Lynn Bousman, aka Joyce Davis, 51, of Harrodsburg, was indicted Thursday. The indictment charges that Bousman used the Social Security number of another individual in order to obtain bank loans, according to a press release from Arnul R. Thapar, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

The indictment alleges that loans were obtained from the following banks: Community Trust Bank from June 2004 through May 2005, in the amount of $17,171; Community Trust Bank from October 2004 through October 2005, in the amount of $5,070; PNC Bank from May 2005 through June 2006, in the amount of $19,923; and Huntington National Bank from October 2004 through June 2006, in the amount of $19,708.

If convicted, the maximum potential penalties are 32 years imprisonment, a fine of $1,000,000, and supervised release for a period of no more than 5 years.

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The investigation preceding the indictment was conducted by the United States Secret Service.

A date has not yet been set for Bousman's arraignment.

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