<blockquote>Ambulance chasing just took a reckless turn — at the intersection of healthcare and the law. A Miami man was charged Thursday with buying confidential patient records from a Jackson Memorial Hospital employee over the past two years, and selling them to a lawyer suspected of soliciting the patients to file personal-injury claims. Ruben E….
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Code Blue: nurses’ details at risk
KIRO 7 investigated a report that 30-40 boxes containing personal information of nurses — “medical records, social security numbers, driver’s licenses, financial records, legal documents, bank records, W2s” — were being dumped in garbage cans of a local spice shop over the past few weeks: The files appear to belong to a company called Code…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Bulfrano Maldonado was found guilty of identity theft. Maldonado had successfully opened a bank account in another person’s name and managed to obtain two loans. He was only caught when he tried to convert the loan to his own name by telling the bank he had changed his name — and…
Man arrested in scam case
A fifth person has been arrested in connection with what police are calling the “Jamaican lottery scam” investigation, which already has seen four other Routt County residents federally indicted and arraigned. Dean Leslie Mowatt, 31, was booked into the Routt County Jail on Sunday and is suspected of theft, identity theft, criminal possession of a…
Fayetteville School District employees victims of id theft
40/29 reports that 30 Fayetteville School District employees have had their Social Security numbers compromised. All of the victims are certified staff members who work for the Fayetteville School District. The district has as yet no idea how the breach occurred or precisely what information was obtained. They also report that: So far, all the…
Second member of id theft ring pleads guilty
Stan Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, and Allen Bryant, Resident Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, announced that Jermaine McClure of Jackson, Mississippi, entered a guilty plea to Aggravated Identity Theft. Sentencing is scheduled for October 1. McClure faces a mandatory sentence of two years in…