In the justice system:
- Marsha Billock-Strahm pled not guilty when she appeared in Toledo’s U.S. District Court June 22 to face charges of aggravated identity theft, false credit card applications, identity theft, and theft of mail while she was a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. More.
- Yi Feng Reid and Yu Jane Chen were charged with conspiracy, theft by deception, identity theft and money laundering. Under the same indictment, George Liu and Ji Gang Chen were charged with conspiracy, theft by deception and identity theft. Reid and Yu Jane Chen, who worked in mortgage and small-business lending, are accused of using others’ identities to obtain unauthorized mortgages and other types of financing. The identities were allegedly taken from victims who supplied the defendants with personal information to obtain loans. The defendants are accused of using the identities without the victims’ knowledge to obtain seven mortgages worth a total of $850,000, and 13 loans and credit accounts worth more than $300,000. More.
- Prosecutors have charged an Arkansas doctor and two former hospital workers at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center with illegally accessing the patient records of KATV anchorwoman Anne Pressly when she was brought to the hospital after being viciously attacked at her home. The three are hospital emergency room coordinator Candida Griffin, patient account representative Sarah Elizabeth Miller and Dr. Jay Holland, a family doctor who had visitation privileges at the hospital. More.