Emilee Larkin reports: A federal judge handed a six-month prison sentence Thursday to a former Treasury official who painted herself as a whistleblower for leaking government records about targets of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. “I understand she viewed herself as a whistleblower,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods said at the hearing this afternoon in Manhattan….
Category: Insider
FL: Safeguard lapse allowed student to access and disrupt Pinellas County school computer system, police say
Walt Buteau reports: A computer system safeguard that the Pinellas County School District was paying for unknowingly lapsed this year, allowing a 17-year-old student to access and disrupt the district’s system, according to school officials. According to a St. Petersburg police arrest affidavit, the high school student allegedly broke into the district computer network March…
NM: Las Cruces behavioral health counselor accused of Medicaid fraud, identity theft
Algernon D’Ammassa reports: A licensed professional clinical counselor based in Las Cruces was indicted Friday on multiple counts of Medicaid fraud, identity theft and other charges. The grand jury indictment, filed in New Mexico’s Third District Court, accuses Cathy Chidester of Drop In Counseling of submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims, including one count of Medicaid fraud…
In: Data security breach affects private schools; are lazy government employees to blame?
The Hindu reports: Private schools have complained of a data security breach by officials with the Department of Primary and Secondary Education, while student information was fed into the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) database. “Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) are tasked with updating data from all the schools in their respective clusters. However,…
NY: EMT posted patient’s confidential info from ambulance, alleges lawsuit
The Staten Island Advance reports: Thanksgiving 2019 is a day one Stapleton resident will never forget. But for all the wrong reasons. An emergency medical technician posted Jermaine Williams’ confidential medical information and cell-phone number online that night without his consent, a lawsuit alleges. And others saw it, William’s lawyer said. At the time, Williams…
KS: FBI Employee Indicted for Illegally Removing National Security Documents, Taking Material to Her Home
May 21 – WASHINGTON – An employee of the FBI’s Kansas City Division has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally removing numerous national security documents that were found in her home. Kendra Kingsbury, 48, of Dodge City, Kansas, was charged in a two-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury…