Over 100 Veterans' identities traded for crack at Tampa VA

Former VA worker gets six years for trading IDs for crack
ABC News WZVN
Posted: Mar 06, 2014

TAMPA, FL
A former employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs was sentenced to six years in federal prison Thursday morning for the theft of more than 100 veterans' personal information.

U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez-Covington sentenced David F. Lewis for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

According to court documents and testimony presented in court, Lewis was an employee at the Tampa VA Medical Center.

On at least five different dates in 2012, Lewis accessed and printed the personal information, including names, social security numbers, and medical information of over 100 veterans who were in-patients at the Tampa VA Medical Center.
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