On January 15, the U.S. Department of justice confirmed on Thursday that Kristy stock, a woman from New Mexico, was sentenced to 18 months in prison because she participated in the theft and resale of iPods specially prepared for Native American students < p > stoke, 46, admitted that he stole more than 3000 iPods purchased by the Central Union School District of New Mexico from 2013 to 2018 and sold them on eBay < p > from 2010 to 2019, stoke supervised a project in the school district to provide iPods for Native American children living on tribal reserves in New Mexico to help them learn reading and mathematics. The U.S. Department of Justice said that stoke will use federal funds to purchase iPods in batches on behalf of the school district, with 100 to 250 orders each time and 2 to 3 times a year < p > stoke admitted that she obtained more than $800000 in illegal proceeds from the sale of stolen iPods, which are themselves worth more than $1 million. In addition, stoke admitted that she forged tax returns from 2012 to 2017. She did not report significant taxable income, which resulted in a tax loss of $270821 to the United States < p > U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake accused stoke of interstate transportation of stolen goods and involvement in tax fraud. In addition to 18 months in prison, her sentence includes three years of post release supervision < p > stoke is not the first person to be sentenced for this case. Her accomplice, Saurabh Chawla, a 36 year old Colorado resident, was sentenced for buying stolen electronic products and other goods and reselling them on eBay and Amazon < p > in addition, Shura also cooperated with Joseph kukta, manager of FedEx distribution center in Delaware, to steal the package before it reached customers such as Wal Mart. Court documents show that Shula paid $1.5 million to the latter. The stolen items include apple, Epson, Kenwood and Magellan < p > it is unclear whether stoke stole iPods from Native American schoolchildren who needed iPods or just took those that were not used. Court documents said that these iPods were purchased in batches with federal funds, and the school district was responsible for keeping unused iPods < p > Shura was sentenced to 66 months in prison, kukta was sentenced to 42 months in prison, and Maryland resident James bender was sentenced to 366 days in prison for letting Shura use his eBay and PayPal accounts to sell stolen goods. Shura was also confiscated of assets worth at least $3.5 million. The court frozen his seven bank accounts, a 2013 Tesla Model s, and forced him to sell the house he bought with fraudulent funds. Kukta was fined $1.1 million and confiscated another $1.88 million in assets. (small) < / P > < p >