A 63-year-old Romanian man pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to conspiracy and identity theft charges related to extensive ATM skimming activity that defrauded banks from coast to coast, including Bridgeport-based People’s United Bank.

George Dragusin admitted that he installed and removed ATM skimming equipment at several People’s United Bank locations between February and June 2017, and used card numbers and PINs stolen from real People’s United customers to obtain money from several bank locations. Dragusin further admitted that, between March and September 2018, he participated in ATM skimming activity in Nevada, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and California, causing multiple banks to suffer total losses of more than $645,000.

People’s United Bank lost $286,069 as a result of this scheme. Dragusin was arrested in California in September 2018 after an investigation by a number of federal law enforcement agencies and municipal police forces, including the Greenwich and Monroe police departments.

Dragusin pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, which carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years, and one count of aggravated identity theft, which carries a mandatory consecutive prison term of imprisonment of two years. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 15.