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Woman accessed Obama loans record
theaustralian.com.au ^ | June 17, 2010 | staff writers

Posted on 06/16/2010 4:49:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

AN IOWA woman pleaded guilty today to accessing President Barack Obama's student loan records without permission.

Mercedes Costoyas, 53, from Iowa City, was one of nine employees of a US Department of Education (DOE) contractor alleged to have accessed the private records between July 2007 and March 2009, The Quad-City Times reported.

The workers were employed by the Vangent call centre in Coralville, a town outside of Iowa City.

Vangent handles incoming calls for various agencies, including financial aid applications for the DOE. The forms contain confidential financial and family information, KCRG-TV in Iowa reported.

The nine defendants were charged with one count of exceeding authorised computer access.

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1 posted on 06/16/2010 4:49:02 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Did she get a chance to see his social security number perhaps? That’s what I want to know.


2 posted on 06/16/2010 4:50:41 PM PDT by DebraAI
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To: Free ThinkerNY
what was his name of record at that time? Was he registered as an Indonesian - a foreign student?

if you are going to cop a plea, then sing!!

3 posted on 06/16/2010 4:54:40 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder how she was caught.

Of course, they probably have such records flagged flagged for any and all access.


4 posted on 06/16/2010 4:54:51 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The nine defendants were charged with one count of exceeding authorised computer access.

I knew a guy who bragged that his friend found Dan Quayle's SS number, and this was way-hayyy before the web.

5 posted on 06/16/2010 4:54:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we shall overcome a generation of affirmative action.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I wonder what deal was made for her silence...Probation?


6 posted on 06/16/2010 4:55:49 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is wrong. These people should be arrested and charged.

That said, those who violated Sarah Palin’s privacy, and those who illegally revealed ‘sealed’ court records of their opponent to win an election over JACK RYAN should be in jail as well.


7 posted on 06/16/2010 4:58:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: elpadre
The fact that he has a student loan record indicates that he was not registered as an Indonesian or a foreign student. Foreign students are not eligible for Federally-guaranteed student loans (which are the only type that a DoE contractor would be able to access).
8 posted on 06/16/2010 5:01:58 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

wrong


9 posted on 06/16/2010 5:09:13 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Also, that Obama needed a student loan argues against the Manchurian Candidate theories that Obama was being funded, groomed or set up by some shadowy nefarious sugar daddy.


10 posted on 06/16/2010 5:10:51 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder if he paid it off?


11 posted on 06/16/2010 5:12:01 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (http://www.thepatriotsflag.com - The Patriot's Flag)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Did you keep a copy, Mercedes?


12 posted on 06/16/2010 5:14:11 PM PDT by Marylander
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Wonder if she was charged with the task of removing ‘problematic’ data or with the task of finding problematic data.


13 posted on 06/16/2010 5:16:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
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I would think real records have been deleted & she didn’t find anything and that what was flagged was anyone searching for the name.


14 posted on 06/16/2010 5:26:48 PM PDT by Bhoy
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
Please do not introduce facts into a thread with good conspiracy theory.
15 posted on 06/16/2010 5:27:32 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

You assume that Obama is above trying to claim foreign nationality for foreign student loans/grants and American citizenship for Federal “student aid;” I wouldn’t put that past him.


16 posted on 06/16/2010 5:29:23 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Plutarch
Also, that Obama needed a student loan argues against the Manchurian Candidate theories that Obama was being funded, groomed or set up by some shadowy nefarious sugar daddy.

Not necessarily. The sugar daddy rumors center around his going to Harvard.

The student loan data might be restricted to Occidental and, perhaps, Columbia.

Recall that he graduated Columbia in 1983. He then spent two years working in NYC, first for Business International Corp., then New York Public Interest Research Group (sound suspicious?). He then moved to Chicago in 1985 and did duty as a community organizer in Chicago for three years before attending Harvard in 1988.

If there was a "sugar daddy", my guess would be that Obama probably came to his attention either at the public interest "research group" or back in Chicago.

17 posted on 06/16/2010 5:51:49 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: OneWingedShark

I wouldn’t put it past him to try that, but, there’s no way he could get away with it - the same financial aid officials at the school would need to process both requests.


18 posted on 06/16/2010 5:53:41 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Kirkwood

How is that wrong?


19 posted on 06/16/2010 5:54:20 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

>I wouldn’t put it past him to try that, but, there’s no way he could get away with it - the same financial aid officials at the school would need to process both requests.

And how would they know that “Barry Soetoro” & “Barrak Hussien Obama,” with completely different social security numbers, were in actuality the same person?


20 posted on 06/16/2010 6:00:01 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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