Michelle Malkin
4/23/2012
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Columbia, SC (WLTX) – State Law Enforcement Division agents have arrested a man they say transferred thousands of confidential state Medicaid records to his personal email account.
Christopher Lykes, 36, of Swansea is charged with five counts of medically indigent act confidentiality violation and one count of disclosure of confidential information.
Agents say their investigation began on April 10, when the Department of Health and Human Services contacted them. The agency revealed Thursday that 228,435 Medicaid records were taken since January.
The documents included names, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates, Medicaid ID numbers and in some cases Social Security numbers.
According to SLED, at least one other party received this data from Lykes. It has not been made public yet who this third party was.
Note: Lykes “served as an executive committeeman of the Lexington County Democratic Party.”
Question: Who received the filched data?
Inquiring minds want to know…and are inquiring…
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