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U.S. Senator Is Victim of ID Theft

Andrew Katz and Zach Wolf report on ABC News' "The Blotter":

Senate minority whip Harry Reid (D-NV) spends time on Capitol Hill and in his home state of Nevada. But he recently found charges for a massive shopping spree on his credit card all the way across the country in North Carolina.

The only problem was that it wasn't actually Sen. Reid who was yielding the power of his credit.

Like so many other Americans, Sen. Reid is one of the most recent victims to the fastest-growing crime in the country, identity theft. Sen. Reid discovered "a handful of charges that did not belong to him," according to Reid's spokesman Jim Manley.

Even though Reid did not have his card physically stolen, someone managed to obtain his number in order to charge around $2,000 of goods, said Manley.

posted by Fergie @ 7/28/2006 09:17:00 AM