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RI woman found guilty of identity fraud
Healthcare Security Weekly, June 6, 2005
A district court jury found a Rhode Island woman guilty on six counts of identity fraud after it was learned that she preyed on six victims, including four cancer patients while working as a registration clerk at a Boston hospital, reports the Boston Herald.
Marlene Honroe, who began working at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through a temp agency, stole the identity of four patients to obtain goods and services in their name. In 1999, while working at Boston's Logan International Airport, Honroe used items stolen from the purse of a coworker and the coworker's daughter to obtain a cell phone service.
The losses to the six victims totaled approximately $4,000.
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