HUD Hires ID Theft Fraudster

It appears that the Department of Housing and Urban Development do not perform extensive background checks on their high level employees. They should. One of their employees worked as the executive assistant to a Deputy Assitant Secretary and was using the office to harvest personal information to commit wire fraud, identity theft, mail fraud and was brokering in stolen credit cards.

And Tracyee Martan, aka Tracy McDaniel, was fired from the job and her computers confiscated to ascertain the extent of her fraudulent use of HUD information.

The Smoking Gun has full details of the report. The report details that Tracyee was also using another employee’s network login credentials for unknown reasons.

That alone can get you jail time, but if the other employee had access to even more sensitive information, the extent of the damage could be huge. HUD maintains sensitive information on many people for home mortgages.