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Guilty plea entered in fraud, ID theft case

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Dissent

The Stockton Record reports:

A Roseville woman has been convicted in San Joaquin County after she collected thousands of dollars from an annuity scheme using the identities of employees from Stockton Unified School District and other area school districts.

Magaly Morales, 52, pleaded to one count of felony insurance fraud with a white collar enhancement and one count of felony identity theft at a March 24 hearing, in which she was sentenced to three years and four months in state prison.

[…]

Prosecutors say that 55 local teachers — 24 of them from Stockton Unified — were victims of Morales’ scam. Also used were the identities of employees from school districts in 11 other counties: Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Merced, Placer, Sacramento, Stanislaus, Shasta, Santa Clara, Solano, and Yolo County.

Read more on Recordnet.com.

The report doesn’t explain how Morales, a licensed insurance agent,  obtained the teachers’ identity information, but a news story by Wes Bowers of the Lodi News-Sentinel quotes the prosecuting attorney:

“She somehow got a hold of all (of the teachers’) data from another agency she had worked for,” Rajender said. “These teachers applied for annuities through that other agency, and when she moved on, she submitted the fraudulent applications for new annuities.”

Instead of coding this as an education sector breach, then, I’m coding it as a business sector breach involving an insider. YMMV.

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