“My life is over”– Victim was imprisoned for 428 days after LA police officers stopped working to identify real identity.
Ashley Belanger – Apr 3, 2024 8:08 pm UTC
A top-level Iowa healthcare facility systems administrator, Matthew Kierans, has actually confessed to taking a colleague’s identity and impersonating William Donald Woods for more than 30 years, The Register reported.
On top of utilizing Woods’ identity to devote criminal activities and acquire financial obligation, Kierans’ sophisticated identity theft plan resulted in Woods’ imprisonment after Kierans’ implicated his victim of identity theft and Los Angeles authorities stopped working to discover which male was the real William Donald Woods. Kierans might confront 32 years in jail, The Register reported, and should pay a $1.25 million fine.
According to a proposed plea arrangement with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, Kierans fulfilled Woods “in about 1988” when they interacted at a hotdog stand in New Mexico. “For the next 3 years,” Kierans utilized Woods’ “identity in every element of his life,” consisting of when getting “work, insurance coverage, a social security number, chauffeur’s licenses, titles, loans, and credit,” in addition to when paying taxes. Kierans even got wed and had a kid utilizing Woods’ name.
Kierans obviously hatched the plan in 1990 when he was working as a paper provider for the Denver Post. That’s when he initially got a recognition file in Woods’ name. The next year, Kierans purchased an automobile for $600 utilizing 2 checks in Woods’ name, the plea contract stated. After both checks bounced, Kierans “absconded with the taken lorry to Idaho, where the vehicle broke down and he deserted it.” As an outcome, an arrest warrant was released in Woods’ name, while Kierans relocated to Oregon and the location of the genuine Woods was relatively unidentified.
Ultimately in summer season 2012, Kierans transferred to Wisconsin, looking into Woods’ household history on Ancestry.com and after that fraudulently acquiring Woods’ licensed birth certificate from the State of Kentucky, apparently to help his task hunt. At some point in 2013, Kierans was worked with by a medical facility in Iowa City to work from another location from Wisconsin as a “high level administrator in the healthcare facility’s infotech department,” utilizing Woods’ birth certificate and a fictitious I-9 type to pass the health center background check.
Over the next years, Kierans made about $700,000 because function, while enhancing his identity theft plan. In between 2016 and 2022, Kierans utilized Woods’ name, Social Security number, and date of birth and “consistently acquired” 8 “car and individual loans” from 2 cooperative credit union, every one amounting to in between $15,000 and $44,000.
Woods just found the identity theft in 2019, when he was homeless and found that he inexplicably had $130,000 in financial obligation to his name. Woods tried to close checking account that Kierans had actually opened in Woods’ name, which’s when Kierans went on the defense, effectively pressing to get Woods jailed to hide Kierans’ years of identity theft.
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