Anchorage woman sentenced for selling veterans funeral benefits, stealing identities
Court records show the sentence was handed down Thursday against 50-year-old
Assistant
Hayden obtained
"Several of the victims had purchased veterans funeral benefits from Hayden," prosecutors said.
Additionally, a pleading filed in the case indicated Hayden sold identity theft protection for nine years, prosecutors said.
Hayden's LinkedIn profile, provided by prosecutors, lists her as working at Harvard Risk Management of
She also wrote in the profile that her family understands such theft is not simply a financial problem, and lists several instances in which a person's information may be used -- for hospital visits, fraudulent tax refunds and obtaining driver's licenses.
The government's sentencing memorandum says Hayden was on supervised release in a state forgery case when she was hit with the federal charges, and several other investigations into her fraudulent insurance activity were ongoing by the
The memorandum says that beyond the credit card applications, Hayden has been connected with 19 bogus insurance applications, four forged court orders and four forged letters harassing her own son and victims in the federal case.
She sent two of the harassing letters after she pleaded guilty in the case, prosecutors said. A handwriting analysis of the letter involving her son concluded that "she may have written the letter falsely claiming to be her son taking responsibility for her crimes."
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