Two NYC employees sentenced for selling identity fraud

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

Two NYC employees sentenced for selling identity fraud
September 18, 2010

Two former New York City employees were sentenced to prison yesterday for 
identification fraud. Michael Wills, a former employee of the New York 
City Human Resources Administration, was sentenced to two years in prison 
for stealing copies of welfare recipients. birth certificates and social 
security cards and selling them to another individual. Edward Jones, a 
former employee of the New York City Department of Health and Mental 
Hygiene, Bureau of Vital Statistics was sentenced to eight months in 
prison for stealing parental identification information from birth 
certificates and selling such information to another individual.

Both individuals had previously pled guilty in Manhattan federal court.

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