A 25-year-old employee at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore allegedly stole names, social security numbers and address from patients, giving the information to friends to buy more than $600,000 in merchandise, according to a release from the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.
The U.S. Attorney's Office indictment said the employee stole the information between Aug. 2007 and March 2009. The employee had access to personal information from patients and their guardians but court papers did not say precisely where in the hospital she worked.
The defendants, which include the employee and four other individual ranging in age from 22 to 54 who received the information from the employee, face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and two years in prison consecutive to any other sentence for aggravated identity theft.
Read the U.S. Attorney's Office release on fraud.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office indictment said the employee stole the information between Aug. 2007 and March 2009. The employee had access to personal information from patients and their guardians but court papers did not say precisely where in the hospital she worked.
The defendants, which include the employee and four other individual ranging in age from 22 to 54 who received the information from the employee, face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and two years in prison consecutive to any other sentence for aggravated identity theft.
Read the U.S. Attorney's Office release on fraud.
Read more coverage on employee fraud:
- Former Massachusetts Hospital Executive Indicted in $500,000 Bribery and Kickback Scheme
- Two New York-Presbyterian Hospital Officials Charges With Fraud
- Four Arrested in Ohio Healthcare Fraud Scheme