More details have emerged on a case reported on this site last week in which a state employee accessed a state database and acquired identity information that she allegedly then sold to others. News4Jax reports: According to the Department of Economic Opportunity, one of their employees managed to access the Florida Department of Children and Families‘…
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Update: Air Force senior master sergeant sentenced for ID theft involving fellow soldiers
Christopher Dwan Underwood, who pled guilty in January to stealing government-issued credit cards and dozens of his fellow soldier’s identity information, has been sentenced to two years.
Indictment charges Flordia eye doc with misdiagnosing and operating on patients needlessly to support Medicare fraud
Here’s yet another case where patients’ records were allegedly purposefully corrupted to support a fraud scheme – resulting in patients allegedly getting serious surgeries and injections they didn’t need, and putting them at risk for future improper treatment should those records be used by others. Salomon E. Melgen, 60, is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist licensed to…
Former Montgomery Nightclub Owner Sentenced to Prison for Role as Ringleader of Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
Tarrish Tellis, 38, owned the Club Iconz Bar and Grill in Montgomery, Alabama. He was also the mastermind behind a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that stole over $700,000. Yesterday, Tellis was sentenced to 223 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $694,366 in restitution. On Jan. 14, a federal jury convicted Tellis of…
IRS employee accused of stealing credit card info while at work
From the well-this-inspires-confidence-doesn’t-it dept.: KCTV in Missouri reports: An IRS employees is accused of booking a vacation and a shopping spree while on the clock with stolen credit card information. Weisha Jackson is charged with stealing credit card information from another employee while working at the Kansas City Internal Revenue Service campus. Read more on…
Curious employee breached privacy of 39 patients, Island Health authority admits
Canadian Press reports: The health authority on Vancouver Island says an employee who had nothing to do with the care of 39 patients accessed their health records out of curiosity about friends or neighbours. Suzanne Germain, of Island Health, said an investigation began last November after allegations that a longtime worker was looking at confidential…