A husband and wife who owned a short-lived restaurant in Bakersfield have been indicted by a Fresno federal grand jury. Alia Christine Brost, 35, and Roberto Renteria Jr., 33, of Bakersfield, are accused in a 29-count indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and access device (credit card) fraud. According to the indictment,…
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MN: Three sentenced for stealing identities, obtaining more than $150,000 from victims
Last Friday in federal court, a 34-year-old Maplewood woman was sentenced for her role in a scheme that was using the names and personal identification information of others on fraudulent checks resulting in a total attempted loss of more than $300,000. United States District Court Judge David S. Doty sentenced Nou Thao to time already…
AZ: Casa Grande court clerk hid, took home records
Yesterday I updated a breach report on phiprivacy.net where a hospital employee had taken records home… and taken records home… and taken records home. According to hospital investigators, there was no indication that she used them criminally or intended to use them criminally, but the incident points out how many paper records may just “wander”…
NC: Wake Forest Baptist medical records found in rental home owned by employee
Richard Craver reports: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Wednesday that it has fired an employee who had boxes of medical records and documents in a home she owns. Wake Forest Baptist, in a statement, did not identify the employee. According to Forsyth County tax records, the home is owned by Linda-Carolyn Bowden Turner, who could not be…
Ca: Mountie docked pay for snooping in database [repost]
[repost] Gary Dimmock reports: A disgraced Mountie has been docked eight days pay after an internal investigation revealed the constable had made numerous unauthorized checks on the force’s national crime data bank and shared some of the information with his wife, an associate and former business partner of a Hells Angel. Const. Todd Glasman became…
IL: Medical center employee sentenced to 8 years for ID thefts
Mary Shenk reports: Patricia Castor of Mahomet fought back tears as she told a judge how her late mother lived in fear after her wallet was stolen by an employee of an Urbana hospital where she was a patient. […] The wallet and identity thief was Karen Dooley, 30, of Champaign, a “transporter” for Provena Covenant…