Man Sentenced in Theft of Patient&#39;s Identity
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SEATTLE, Nov. 6 -- A technician at a cancer center was sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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Police used dental records to identify a man who broke into a cafeteria in southern Sweden &#151; the suspect left his false teeth with his social security number engraved in them at the scene of the crime.
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A well-known Arlington County psychiatrist who was stripped of his medical licenses in Virginia and the District for negligence, inappropriate and excessive prescribing of drugs for patients as young as 4 and sexually intimate behavior with a patient is trying to get his license back.
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SCRANTON, Pa. - Schuylkill County Prison officials took an inmate's prosthetic leg when they found tobacco hidden in it, tossed it around until they broke it and refused to return it, the former inmate said in a federal lawsuit against the county, the prison and officials.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A once-powerful state senator at the center of a corruption scandal was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking payoffs from the health care industry.
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A convicted sex offender who absconded from a psychiatric hospital is found during a police operation.
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Snohomish County sheriff&#39;s investigators are searching for a man who they believe broke into a cancer patient&#39;s home Sunday morning.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - A Federal judge on Tuesday   sentenced former HealthSouth Corp.HLSH.OB Chief Financial   Officer Michael Martin to 36 months in prison, marking the   third time he has been sentenced for his part in a $2.7 billion   accounting scandal that rocked the company.
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A sex offender who absconded from a psychiatric hospital is found during a police operation.
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A doctor who rushed patients into sex change surgery is found guilty of serious professional misconduct.
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R. James Nicholsonâs term was marked by the theft of a laptop computer that compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people.
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NOVATO, Calif. - A man was convicted of various theft charges, after prosecutors say he stole computers from the courthouse while he was on trial for computer theft.
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A computer technician who prosecutors said made possible the largest identity theft in US history, surpassing $50 million (?40 million), pleaded guilty Tuesday
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A man charged in connection with identity theft had his social security number exposed on the court's digital records system.
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ERIE, Pa. - A man on probation for stealing $361,000 from a business he co-owned has stolen from his new employer, police said. Patrick J. Leighton, 59, of Erie, stole $2,621 from a veterinary clinic while he was working as a manager in November, according to state police.
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A Sri Lankan burglar who pretended to be a patient to steal cash from a hospital ended up in a ward himself after he jumped out of the window and broke his leg.
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Potentially contaminated body parts stolen in the US may have been used on British patients, experts admit.