OPERATION "HOUSE OF CARDS" BUST.  District Attorney Richard A. Brown and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announced that a forged credit card and identity theft ring based in Queens County and with roots in the Far East has been successfully dismantled following the indictment of thirty-eight individuals.  The ring was allegedly responsible for stealing the personal credit information of scores of American consumers and costing these individuals, financial institutions and retail businesses more than $1 million in losses over the past year. (March 2008)