A former organ transplant coordinator, who would evaluate patients near death across 48 hospitals, has been convicted for illegally accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's medical records, The Washington Post reported July 31.
On July 31, Trent Russell was convicted for illegally accessing Ms. Ginsburg's medical records, which showed details of her cancer treatments at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Following a half-day of deliberations, jurors found Mr. Russell guilty of unlawfully accessing Ms. Ginsburg's private health information in 2019 and tampering with records during a federal investigation.
Mr. Russell was cleared of charges related to posting the information on an online message board. These charges are due to Ms. Ginsburg's hospital chart being surfaced on an online messaging board 4chan and then spreading to Twitter and YouTube, which attracted the attention of federal investigators and triggered an investigation into the data breach.
During the trial, FBI agents and a former hospital administrator testified that they traced the Jan. 7, 2019, search for Ms. Ginsburg's patient chart back to one of Mr. Russell's home computers.
Mr. Russell faces a potential maximum sentence of 21 years in prison, along with substantial fines totaling tens of thousands of dollars, according to the Post.