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Originally posted by KRL
Get ready for a long period of frustration.
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yup.. a Dr. my wife used to work for had his identity taken over 5 times by the same man... even after he went to jail. the guy even opened up his own medical practice and did surgery and all kind of crazy shit... dateline even did a show about him...
One doctor encounters a serial identity thief
It's bad enough when an identity thief uses your personal information for financial gain. But what if that happened not once, but five times? And what if that thief was also treating patients under your name?
That's what happened to Gerald C. Barnes, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Stockton, Calif. Five times during a 20-year period, a man born Jerald Barnbaum, who in 1970 changed his name legally to Gerald Barnes, has stolen Dr. Barnes' identity.
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"It's probably one of the most extreme cases of identification theft that we've seen both in terms of the number of years that it was carried on and the elaborate deceptions that were involved," said Dan Saunders, an assistant U.S. attorney in California who recently prosecuted the not-doctor Barnes.
Barnbaum/Barnes used the real physician's name and credentials to obtain employment as a doctor at several clinics in the Los Angeles area between the late 1970s and 2000.
The phony physician was convicted in 1981 for involuntary manslaughter after a patient died. He also was convicted in 1984 and 1989 on state charges related to impersonating Dr. Barnes.
In 1996, the false doctor was sentenced on federal charges to 12½ years in prison for posing as Dr. Barnes a fourth time. He escaped in August 2000 and was arrested a month later, working as "Dr. Barnes" in a Los Angeles clinic.
This earned the phony physician a second federal grand jury indictment last February. On Sept. 18, he pleaded guilty in a California federal court to mail fraud, distributing controlled substances, using Dr. Barnes' Drug Enforcement Administration number and stealing Dr. Barnes' identity to buy a car. Scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 8, the fake physician faces up to 38 years imprisonment on top of the 15 years he already is serving, including 2½ years for escaping.
another link about it