Shanell Angelia Bowser, a former claims clerk for a medical claims adjuster, pleaded guilty to stealing the personal data of claimants and using the data to obtain credit. According to the press release:
Over the course of the three year scheme, Bowser and her co-schemers used stolen identifying information of at least 207 individuals in at least 373 applications for credit accounts from financial institutions. Of those applications, at least 125 fraudulent accounts were opened and used to make purchases in the names of 89 individual victims. At least $174,000 in retail goods and cash advances were purchased and obtained using the fraudulently opened credit accounts.
Bowser faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine for conspiracy to commit bank fraud; and a mandatory sentence of two years in prison for aggravated identity theft, consecutive to any term of imprisonment for the conspiracy.
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