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A woman that lives in Bangor Maine by the name of Mary L. Landry stole the identity of another woman named Mary E. Landry. Landry used her position at FairPoint Communications, then Verizon, to obtain Mary E. Landry’s social security number and personal information. She then used the information to apply for several credit cards. Landry was unaware that some of the information she used was incorrect so some of the credit card companies rejected her applications. The id theft victim found out about the identity theft because a credit card company informed her that someone had attempted to take out a credit card in her name.

By the time the id theft victim figured out what was happened the identity thief had already charged 4,500 onto a Chase Bank Visa card. The identity thief had already made two payments on the card an U.S. Attorney James Moore told the judge that she made payments to increase her credit limit.

Unfortunately for the identity thief the person’s identity that she stole was Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, the highest-ranking female in the U.S. Coast Guard. The Judge in the id theft case said it was very unlucky to have stolen Mary E. Landry’s identity seeing how her identity is a matter of national security. As a requirement of her “top-secret” security clearance, Adm. Landry, the Coast Guard’s director of governmental and public affairs, is required to have no bad debt.

Mary L. Landry was sentenced to three years for the identity theft. She was also sentenced to three years of supervised release after her sentence. She will not be allowed to have a credit card unless her probation officer approves it.

I guess the moral of the story is don’t steal the identity of someone important. Make sure your victim is really unimportant before stealing their identity.