It comes as no surprise that the IRS is now stealing people's sensitive
medical records. That's the case in California. A reported 60 million
medical records have been seized by 15 IRS agents. The House Energy and
Commerce Committee is now investigating a lawsuit initiated by a
California health care provider that purports that the IRS stole
"intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans
including the names and health records of prominent celebrities, sports
personalities, and CEOs, ultimately affecting roughly one out of every
twenty-five adult American citizens."
These power grabbers didn't
fool around. They went for the entire company's IT system, telling the
IT personnel "to transfer several servers of the medical records and
patient records to the IRS for search and seizure, otherwise they would
'rip' the servers out of the building entirely."
After further
investigation, the IRS agents used the stolen IT media system to even
order pizza and watch basketball at their headquarters.
The charges also state that the IRS agents had initially obtained a search
warrant, but the warrant was designated to seize the financial records of a former employee of the company - not medical records, and certainly not 60 million confidential medical records from 10 million California residents.
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