Opeoluwa Adigun a/k/a Mary Afolabi, age unknown, and Chukwuka Onyekaba a/k/a Gabriel Onyekaba, 32, both of Marietta, Georgia, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing the identities of more than 80 individuals in the Atlanta metropolitan area and opening credit card accounts, loans, and bank accounts in the names of…
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UCSF employee charged with wire fraud
Henry K. Lee reports: A UCSF Medical Center employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud for allegedly using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete online health surveys so that he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers. From January to April, Cam Giang of San Francisco used other UC employees’…
U.S. airport security officers targeted in ID theft
From Reuters, this follow-up on a breach reported previously: A Massachusetts couple has been charged with stealing the identities of dozens of Transportation Security Administration officers, who screen passengers and baggage at U.S. airports. A federal grand jury accused Michael Derring, 48, and Tina White, 47, on Wednesday of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, alleging…
Woman sentenced in UCM identity theft case
As a follow-up on a case previously covered on this blog, there was a small story in the Kansas City Star that Amanda J. Drake was sentenced to six months in prison for an identity theft scheme that targeted University of Central Missouri students. Drake’s husband is a former university police officer who was previously…
Judge won’t accept pleas in Jackson Memorial Hospital ID theft case
Jay Weaver reports: A husband-and-wife duo charged with running a racket to pilfer patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital to sell to lawyers for injury claims tried to plead guilty Tuesday in Miami federal court. But U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard said she couldn’t accept their pleas because she didn’t think the prescribed punishment fit…
FL: Ex-teacher faces prison after pleading guilty to ID theft
Jon Burstein reports: A former high school teacher faces up to five years in prison after federal authorities say she pilfered the identities of past Broward School District students. Sheyla Diaz, 44, pleaded guilty on Friday to a single count of identity theft. She resigned in January from her job as a social sciences teacher…