An anonymous reader wrote: When he discovered that his identity had been used for fraudulent loans and tried to resolve the issue by presenting his state ID and Social Security card, he was instead arrested and charged with multiple felonies, serving a one-year sentence. Can you imagine being incarcerated and imprisoned? Hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital, given psychotropic drugs, and eventually released with a criminal record and ordered by a judge to no longer use your real name? Does that mean it came out? It may sound dystopian, but it actually happened. And it wasn't until the victim learned that her oppressor worked at the University of Iowa Hospital and contacted the hospital's security department that the investigation was taken seriously, leading to the arrest of her assailant. The Gazette newspaper reports: Matthew David Keirans, 58, was found guilty of one count of making false statements to an insurance agency of the National Credit Union Administration, punishable by up to 30 years in federal prison, and one count of aggravated identity theft. He was sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison. in federal prison. Mr. Keirans worked as a system architect in his IT department at the hospital from June 28, 2013 until July 20, 2023, when he committed misconduct related to an identity theft investigation. was fired by. Mr. Kierans had been working at the hospital under the alias William Donald Woods since about 1988, when he worked alongside the real William Woods at a hot dog cart in Albuquerque, New Mexico. […] By 2013, Keiran had moved to eastern Wisconsin. He started his IT job at his UI Hospitals and worked remotely. He earned more than $700,000 in the 10 years he worked at the hospital. His salary in 2023 was $140,501, according to the hospital.
In 2019, the real William Woods was homeless and living in Los Angeles. He went to a branch of the National Bank and explained that he had recently noticed that someone had embezzled his credit and left him with a large amount of debt. Mr. Woods did not want to pay his debt, so he asked the bank for his account number so he could close any accounts he had open. Mr. Woods gave the bank employee a real Social Security card and a real California ID, which matched the information the bank had on file. Because there was so much money in the account, the banker asked Mr. Woods a series of secret questions, which he was unable to answer. The bank employee called Cailance, whose phone number was associated with the account. He answered the security questions correctly and said no one in California should have access to the account. The employee called the Los Angeles Police Department, and officers spoke with Woods and Keiran. The Keilans faxed a copy of Woods' Social Security card and birth certificate to a Los Angeles police officer, as well as a Wisconsin driver's license the Keilans had obtained in Woods' name. The name on his driver's license was not William Donald Woods, but William David Woods (David was Kierans' real middle name). When questioned, Kieran told LAPD officers that his real name was William Donald Woods, although he sometimes used David as his middle name. The real Woods was arrested and charged with identity theft and impersonation after he misspelled Kierans' name, Matthew Kierans.
Woods continued to insist throughout the judicial process that he was William Woods, not Matthew Kierans, so in February 2020 a judge ruled that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial and was sentenced to California. He was sent to a state psychiatric hospital, where he was admitted. Psychotropic medications and other mental health treatments. In March 2021, Woods pleaded no contest to identity theft charges. In other words, he accepted the guilty verdict, but he did not plead guilty. He was sentenced to two years in prison and released with credit for two years already served in county jail and hospital. He was also ordered to pay a $400 fine and stop using the William Woods name. he didn't stop. Woods continued to try to regain his identity, filing customer disputes with financial institutions in an attempt to have his credit report expunged. He also contacted multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Hartland Police Department in Wisconsin, where the Kaylans lived. Woods eventually tracked down Keirans' place of employment and contacted the University of Iowa Hospital's security department in January 2023, which filed a complaint with the University of Iowa Police Department.
University of Iowa Police Detective Ian Mallory began investigating the incident. Mallory discovered that Woods' biological father was listed on his birth certificate (an official copy was sent to him by Woods and Keilan) and compared his father's DNA to Woods's. Verified. Tests revealed that Woods was the man's son. On July 17, 2023, Mallory interviewed Kaylans. He asked Kaylans the name of her father, and Kaylans mistakenly gave the name of her adoptive father. Mallory then confronted Kaylans with his DNA evidence, to which Kaylans replied, “My life is over” and “Everything is gone.” He later confessed to long-term identity theft, according to court documents. The full text can be found in The Gazette.