Visanio Eugene Vann, 47, of Thousand Oaks was sentenced last week in Los Angeles to 95 months in federal prison for orchestrating an identity theft scheme in which he used personal identifying information taken from dozens of mortgage and credit files to fraudulently obtain credit cards that were used to purchase more than $1 million in goods and services.

U.S. District Judge S. James Otero also ordered Vann to pay $1.04 million in restitution to eight banks that suffered losses during the course of Vann’s nearly four-year-long scheme.

Vann pleaded guilty last November to three felony charges: mail fraud, use of unauthorized access devices (credit cards) and aggravated identity theft. Vann obtained personal identifying information and used the data to fraudulently obtain credit cards and checks from victim banks. Vann also fraudulently obtained driver’s licenses, which allowed him to use the credit cards and checks.

When authorities searched Vann’s home last year, they discovered mortgage files in the names of 145 people and 46 credit files that belonged to other people. To conceal his activities, Vann maintained mail drops in Beverly Hills, where he had victim financial institutions send the fraudulently obtained credit cards and checks.

In issuing his sentence, Otero considered Vann’s lengthy criminal history, which includes fraud convictions that go back 25 years, and Vann’s lavish lifestyle that included designer clothing, a Mercedes-Benz convertible, highend nightclubs and restaurants, and his $1,400 purchase of a purebred puppy with fraudulent credit.