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Celebrity-snooping ex-UCLA Medical Center staffer is indicted
Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2008
Lawanda Jackson, a former administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly selling information to the media from medical records of celebrity patients. Jackson was indicted on a charge of obtaining individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage. Actress Farrah Fawcett and her lawyers allege that Jackson leaked personal information about Fawcett's battle with cancer to tabloids.
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