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CT man pleads guilty to using stolen “convenience checks” to defraud banks

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Dissent

Justin Edwards, 27, of Coventry, Connecticut pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to court documents and statements made in court, between July 2007 and March 2008, Edwards and a co-defendant stole balance…

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KS: State Investigating Care Facility’s Disposal Of Records

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Dissent

The Department on Aging is investigating allegations a Topeka care facility put documents with personal information in a public recycling dumpster. The agency says Briarcliff Care Center, 3224 SW 29th St., reported the incident to them Friday morning. A person reported finding the documents Thursday night in a recycling dumpster at SE 29th and Adams….

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Military lags in safeguarding officers’ identities

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Dissent

Charlie Reed of Stars and Stripes reports on the military’s progress – or lack thereof – in addressing an August 2008  report by PublicResources.org that revealed that hundreds of thousands military officers’ Social Security numbers were publicly available in government and commercial databases, including the Congressional Record,  W.S. Hein, LexisNexis,  and Westlaw. It seems that…

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Palmetto General Hospital employee and accomplice sentenced for stealing patient records

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Dissent

Jacquettia L. Brown, 29, and Tear Renee Barbary, 25, both residents of Miami-Dade County, were both sentenced this week following their conviction on offenses relating to the theft of patient records from Palmetto General Hospital to further a fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Brown to two years and five days…

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Your Personal Information Found In The Trash

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Dissent

Marshall Zelinger reports: COLORADO SPRINGS – Your personal information is available for anyone to get their hands on. Customers at a now-closed Hollywood Video near South Academy and Chelton Road may have their personal information just sitting in the trash outside the building. NEWSCHANNEL 13 found piles of trash with names, phone numbers, addresses, birth…

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DA: Nigeria scammer stole 150 IDs

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Dissent

Laura Italiano reports: As temps from hell go, officials say this one takes the cake — and whatever mother’s maiden names he can get his hands on. Manhattan prosecutors say a 19-year-old Nigerian computer whiz stole the personal financial information of 150 fellow employees during a brief but busy three-month temping stint at Bank of…

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