LAWFUEL - Legal Newswire - Two men were arrested today on charges related to the illegal access of computers containing personal identification information of Countrywide Home Loan customers and the illegal sale of the data, announced Salvador Hernandez, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles, and United States Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien.
Rene L. Rebollo Jr., 36, of Pasadena, was arrested this morning without incident at his residence by special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Rebollo is scheduled to make his initial court appearance this afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles.
A second man charged in the case — Wahid Siddiqi, 25, of Thousand Oaks – was arrested this afternoon by FBI agents, who received the assistance of the Simi Valley Police Department. Siddiqi, who allegedly purchased the identification data, is expected to make his initial court appearance on Monday.
According to a criminal complaint filed last night, the FBI, as well as investigators with Countrywide Financial, discovered a security breach at the company and initiated a joint investigation.
The complaint alleges that Rebollo was employed as a senior financial analyst for Countrywide Home Loan’s subprime mortgage division, Full Spectrum Lending in Pasadena. In his position, he had access to Countrywide computer databases, many of which contained sensitive information of Countrywide clients. Countrywide Financial is in the process of terminating Rebollo’s employment.
According to the complaint, Rebollo was interviewed by FBI agents last month and acknowledged that he was responsible for giving out account information belonging to Countrywide customers to third parties over the course of two years. Rebollo said he obtained the information from Countrywide computers at his workspace and saved the reports to personally owned flash drives, according to the complaint. After Rebollo saved the Countrywide Home Loan data on the flash drives, he left the Countrywide Home Loan premises with the intent to sell the data.
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I have learned that the KamberEdelson Law Firm (http://www.kamberedelson.com) is investigating allegations relating to the compromise of millions of account records at Countrywide. If anyone would like to assist because they have additional info or believe they may have been impacted they should contact countrywide@KamberEdelson.com
Thank you.
Posted on August 7th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
How about also arresting this Countrywide employee, Cheaters Among Us, Sue Barry, http://reno.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3415.Sue Barry has been a loan officer and manager with Countrywide Home Loans for several years. When Ms. Barry was confronted with the public record evidence of her clients, John and Kay Sickler’s, mortgage fraud, she did not deny it. Ms. Barry knew about mortgage fraud, condoned it and benefited by it. It is believed that Ms. Barry at the time of the Sickler’s mortgage fraud was then earning around $450,000 as a loan officer and Countrywide manager.
What Ms. Barry was doing made her a Fraudster, Economic Terrorist, panderer with Unclean Hands, and I believe a plain and simple cheat, and a not very bright one at that. Cheat is to defraud, swindle, practice deceit, or violate rules or agreements. Why is it that the ones cheated on are the ones in hell while the cheaters are not in prison? There is a pattern of behavior from Ms. Barry. She acted outside the accepted Countrywide’s practices as stated in writing to her and every loan officer at Countrywide. Behavior relating not only to mortgage fraud but also violations of Countrywide’s own Human Resource rules. There is a large gap between Countrywide’s Loan Fraud Department and Countrywide’s Corporate Security that Ms. Barry successfully and profitably operated in.
Posted on August 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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