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Identity Theft Fears At HUD

Via The Smoking Gun.

A Department of Housing and Urban Development employee suspected of bank fraud and identity theft had access to "sensitive information" at the agency, including material stored on the Blackberrys and computers of Secretary Alphonso Jackson and other agency brass, as well as separate "personal client information housed on HUD computers."

Following the June 26 arrest of Tracyee Martan for passing a phony cashier's check at a Maryland bank, federal agents secured her HUD office "in order to prevent any further access by Martan to sensitive information," according to a search warrant affidavit. Court filings do not indicate whether Martan is suspected of misusing confidential HUD information, or the nature of the "personal client information" housed on the federal agency's computer system.

A search of Martan's Washington, D.C. apartment turned up "numerous boxes of consumer goods" that "are believed to be the fruits of a credit card, bank fraud, identity theft scheme," the affidavit notes.

posted by Fergie @ 7/10/2006 03:17:00 PM