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Former UCLA hospital employee pleads guilty

Posted on December 1, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Shaya Tayefe Mohajer reports:

A former UCLA Medical Center employee pleaded guilty Monday to selling the private medical information of celebrities and high-profile patients, including Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett, to the National Enquirer.

Using a wheelchair, Lawanda Jackson, 49, spoke quietly as she entered her plea to the felony charge of violating federal medical privacy law for commercial purposes in U.S. District Court.

Read more in the Mercury News


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