Timothy Wadsworth sentenced to 51 months for pandemic-era fraud scheme

A Rochester man who ran card fraud, relief-loan scams, and a romance con through the COVID years will spend more than four years in federal prison Timothy Wadsworth, a 35-year-old from Rochester, New York, is headed to federal prison for 51 months. He ran a series of fraud schemes that left victims and government programs with more than $2 million in losses. US District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. handed down the sentence on October 23, 2026. The sentencing followed a guilty plea Wadsworth entered in May 2026. He admitted to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. The largest piece involved stolen card activity. Wadsworth’s operation pushed unauthorized credit card transactions through a Stripe merchant account .

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