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MN: State worker stole IDs for fraud

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dissent

David Chanen and Dan Browning report:

Applications that psychologists made to the Minnesota Board of Psychology to get or renew their licenses delivered a gold mine of information to a receptionist working with a crime ring to defraud banks and retailers in 14 states.

Robin Finger, 44, is the latest of several people in a position of trust to plead guilty to the identity fraud ring that involved more than 30 people and at least $2 million in fraudulent purchases and bank withdrawals. In federal court Thursday, the prosecution described how Finger passed along the Social Security numbers and bank account data of psychologists to other members of the ring that eventually victimized 42 people.

Read more on Star Tribune.

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