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Friday, June 25, 2004


Anyone remember the good old days of identity theft? Back when you could steal some old person's identity and go nuts with their credit history? Well, it turns out, you need to be a bit more careful about such things. Meet Sharon Durbin. She thought she had a good mark in her sights when she got hold of C. Rosenthal's bank info. I'm sure it wasn't 'till much later that she learned that Chuck Rosenthal was the district attorney for Harris County. Ooops.
Investigators say the 30-year-old Beaumont woman wrote nearly two dozen phony checks on the chief prosecutor's personal bank account, passing herself off as "Cathy Rosenthal," with a fake driver's license to match.

Meanwhile, Rosenthal had to shut down his bank account, contact the police and draw money temporarily out of his children's savings account.
Stealing the identity of a D.A. is like date-raping Superman's sister. You're not going to get away with it, and when they catch you, you're going down in a big way.



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