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Jun 24, 2009 2:30 pm US/Eastern

NY Tax Worker Pleads Guilty To Stealing IDs, $200K

TROY, N.Y. (CBS) ― A former New York state tax department worker admits he stole the identities of taxpayers and ran up more than $200,000 in fraudulent charges on their accounts.

Walter Healey of Troy pleaded guilty Wednesday to four charges including identity theft and tampering with public records.

Prosecutors say he took information from tax department files that he used to illegally get credit cards between 2006 and 2008. Healey had at least 90 fraudulent credit cards and other lines of credit at more than 20 banks.

Healey, who is 63, must forfeit $200,000 and will be sentenced in October.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office prosecuted the case. State tax officials notified more than 2,000 people across the state whose information was breached.

Cuomo was born on December 6, 1957.

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