URBANA — A Champaign man who admitted taking part in a bank fraud scam has been sentenced to seven years in prison with a recommendation that he receive boot camp.

Treve Ruskin II, 22, whose last known address was in the 2000 block of North Moreland Boulevard, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Champaign County Circuit Court to "continuing financial crimes enterprise."

Assistant State's Attorney Joel Fletcher said that between December 2009 and January 2010, Ruskin persudaded three young women to open accounts at Busey Bank with small amounts of money. When they received debit cards for those accounts, they gave the cards and their personal identification numbers to Ruskin, who then put money into the accounts using checks written on closed accounts.

He then made withdrawals from the accounts via ATMs before the bank realized the deposits were nonexistent.

Fletcher said the matter came to the attention of bank officials when they noticed a number of similar-sounding letters from the women complaining that their debit cards had been stolen.

Fletcher said a police investigation revealed that Ruskin paid one woman $990 for her debit card and reimbursed another the $50 she used to open the account. Two of three women were promised $1,500 and $2,000 from Ruskin but were never paid, Fletcher said. The state chose not to file criminal charges against the women.

Ruskin was also ordered to pay just under $9,900 in restitution to Busey Bank.

Fletcher objected to defense attorney Baku Patel's request that Ruskin be recommended for boot camp, but Judge Tom Difanis allowed it.

Fletcher agreed to dismiss other counts of organizing a continuing financial crimes enterprise and financial institution fraud in return for Ruskin's plea.

Fletcher said Ruskin's only prior conviction was for misdemeanor theft.