Both David Lytle, 64, of Leawood, Kansas, United States and Robert Reger, 57, of Boulder, Colorado, USA worked at Epsilon Data Management, a data broker that sold consumer information to clients for marketing purposes. Based in Texas, USA, the company has a sales office in Colorado.
What crimes did David Lytle and Robert Reger commit?
Reger is a former senior vice president at Epsilon Data Management where he worked from 2005 to 2017. Lytle served as a business development manager at the company from 2012 to 2018.
While working at the company, Lytle and Reger participated in a scheme that sold targeted lists of consumers and their addresses to perpetrators of fraud schemes involving the sending of false and deceptive mail to consumers. The two used the data broker’s algorithms to predict and sell lists of consumers most likely to respond to the fraud schemes’ mailings.
Lytle and Reger’s business unit worked with clients that sent scam letters promising large prizes or falsely personalized astrological mailings promising wealth. The two sold almost 100 lists of names and addresses to a fraudster client who used the data to defraud over 218,000 victims of more than $23.7 million.
On June 9, 2021, Lytle and Reger were charged in an indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and substantive mail and wire fraud counts. After a two-week trial in May 2024, a federal jury found the two guilty of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and numerous counts of substantive mail fraud and wire fraud.
In particular, Lytle was found guilty of 12 counts of wire fraud while Reger was convicted of six counts of wire fraud. In addition, they were each charged with seven counts of mail fraud.
On September 30, 2024, Reger was sentenced to 120 months in prison. Lytle was sentenced to 48 months in prison.
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