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TX: Dental clerk sentenced for stealing identities of patients

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Dissent

A federal judge sentenced a Brownsville dental clerk to five years and nine months in prison for embezzlement and stealing the identities of patients to open credit cards.

Claire Batsell appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Hilda Tagle on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old woman pleaded guilty last year to fraudulent means of identification and aggravated identity theft.

[…]

The dentist testified that the identity theft affect his patient’s credit scores and that he had to pay back the credit card companies for the fraudulent charges.

Judge Tagle sentenced Batsell to 69 months in federal prison, followed by three years of probation and paying $110,000 dollars in restitution.

Read more on ValleyCentral.com.

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