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L.A. woman accused of stealing stars' medical info

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Dissent

Dan Whitcomb reports:

A former hospital worker implicated in the theft of medical records for “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife and some 60 other celebrities and selling them to the media has been indicted on federal charges.

Lawanda Jackson, a former low-level administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, was charged in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday with illegally obtaining medical information for sale.

The indictment does not name the celebrities who Jackson, 49, is accused of snooping on, but the Los Angeles Times has linked her to a scandal over the burgled records of Schwarzenegger’s wife, Maria Shriver, and Fawcett.

Jackson told the paper in an interview for its April 9 edition that she pried into the records because she was “just being nosy” and hadn’t “leaked” the private information to anyone else.

But the indictment, which was handed down by a U.S. District Court grand jury that same day, accuses her of accepting $4,600 from an unnamed “national media outlet” in exchange for the information.

The indictment alleges that the media outlet disguised the payments by writing checks to her husband.

Source – The US Daily


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