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City Woman Pleads Guilty to HIPPA Violation For Disclosing Patient Information Used to Commit Identity Theft

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John C. Richter, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, announced today that LESLIE A. HOWELL, 30, of Oklahoma City, pled guilty today to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). As part of her plea, Howell admitted that in the summer of 2007, while she was employed by a counseling center in Oklahoma City, she knowingly allowed two individuals to take patient files from her place of employment which contained individually identifiable health information with the intent to obtain personal gain.

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