Ex-UCSF employee sentenced for voucher scam

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(10-28) 17:15 PDT SAN FRANCISCO --

A former UCSF Medical Center employee was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in federal prison for using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete health surveys so he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers good for purchases from Amazon.com.

Cam Giang, 31, of San Francisco pleaded guilty in July to wire fraud, two months after UC fired him.

From January to April, Giang used other UC employees' personal information to create accounts for a website maintained by StayWell Health Management Inc., which conducts online health surveys for employees, federal prosecutors said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/28/BA5Q1G3QVH.DTL

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1. After this guy runs out of employees' SS numbers, on to the patients.

Scumbag.