A former contracted employee for the Milwaukee County human resources department faces an identify theft charge – and so does her boyfriend. 26-year-old Starlita Sims and 25-year-old Christopher Lee Jackson are each charged with one felony count. But Sheriff David Clarke said Monday that the couple is suspected of stealing the identities of over 30…
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Real estate broker gets 69 years in prison for $17.5 million fraud
Rachanee Srisavasdi and Larry Welborn report: A real estate broker was sentenced to 69 years and six months in prison Monday for a $17.5 million real estate fraud scheme in which she used stolen identities to illegally purchase properties, then defaulted on the loans to pocket the loan money. Kathy Chen, 49, was convicted in…
Credit Union employee who wanted to fund son’s death row appeal indicted for ID theft
What some mothers won’t do for their kids. A credit union employee and the mother of a death row inmate, was indicted Thursday tor stealing customer’s credit information to take out loans in their names. The Secret Service told WFTV Nazreen Mohammed was using the money to finance her son Dane Abdool’s defense. Mohammed is…
Former MedAssets employee sentenced to 15 years in University of Texas Medical Branch breach
This is a follow-up to the University of Texas Medical Branch breach previously reported here and here. United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Waco, 34-year-old Katina Candrick of LaGrange, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $163,185.19 restitution for unlawful possession of fraudulent identification documents and…
Citibank employee stole customers’ credit card numbers as part of 3-woman fraud ring
A New York woman was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for her role in a scheme that defrauded customers of a Florence, Kentucky bank out of over one million dollars. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 38-year-old Lisa Reid for one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity…
A puzzling USAA Federal Savings Bank breach report and 10 more reports
Here are another 11 breach notifications submitted to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. These were filed in May and June, and in all but one case, we didn’t know about them through the media or other sources. A breach involving USAA Federal Savings Bank had previously been noted on this site, but there’s more to…