Lauren King reports: A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft and participating in a scheme to defraud Navy Federal Credit Union, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the eastern district of Virginia. Jorge Luis Silva-Davalos, 29, is to be sentenced Jan. 22 and faces up…
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ID theft gets woman uplift, tuck, 9 months in jail
Gary Klien reports in the Marin Independent Journal: A Martinez woman who used another person’s identity to get a $20,000 breast lift and tummy tuck in Greenbrae was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in the Marin County Jail. She nearly got away with it, but a get-well bouquet and a navel itch were her undoing….
ID theft scheme brings sentence for Oklahoma City woman (follow-up)
Jay F. Marks reports: An Oklahoma City woman was sentenced Friday to more than a year in prison for violating a federal health privacy law in an identity theft scheme. Leslie A. Howell pleaded guilty in May to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, a federal law meant to protect patients’…
Louisville chiropractor gets probation for videotaping patients
Patrick Howington reports: Dr. Paul Hollern, who once ran a chiropractor-training empire from Louisville, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months of probation for videotaping patients without their knowledge. Advertisement Hollern, 45, must serve six months of that time on home incarceration, but he is allowed to leave home to work. […] The jury could not…
IL: New Trier hacker saw teacher salaries, medical records
Dan Rozek reports: Jonah Greenthal said he hacked into the computer system at New Trier High School to check his class rank, but the 18-year-old senior found much more than that. Greenthal managed to tap into confidential school data that included teacher salaries, medical records and grade histories for students who had graduated as long…
Texan gets 38 years for stealing 78 identities (update)
As an update to the case reported here yesterday, Tiara M. Ellis of the Dallas Morning News reports: A Duncanville woman who confessed to stealing the identities of 78 people was sentenced to 38 years in prison Monday in what authorities are calling one of the biggest identity-theft cases against a single person in the…