Brooklyn SSA Employee Arrested

From the Stamford Advocate:

A Social Security employee and three accomplices were awaiting arraignment yesterday in Brooklyn on charges alleging they formed an identity theft ring and stole tens of thousands of dollars in benefit payments from more than a dozen elderly and disabled beneficiaries.

The defendants used personal information from the Social Security Administration's computer system to steal the payments and other money from the beneficiaries between January 2004 and this month, officials said.