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The photograph cost five hundred dollars. The list inside it cost six thousand people their names.

Federal prosecutors say a healthcare worker in Miami photographed patient records with his cellphone and sold them to a buyer who resold the lists for as much as $7,000 each. The numbers belonged to more than 6,000 Medicare beneficiaries who never knew their files were leaving the room.

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The fixer at the airport gate, and the $10 billion machine he fed

A dual citizen was stopped at JFK in September 2024 with a one-way ticket toward Azerbaijan. The bag he was carrying mattered less than the bank accounts he left behind, and the ninety-year-old whose Medicare number was written on a claim form she never saw.

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