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Friday, April 12, 2024

Will the real William Woods please stand up?

A former University of Iowa Hospital employee pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges that he had been living under another man’s identity since 1988, causing the other man to be falsely imprisoned for identity theft and sent to a mental hospital. 

Matthew David Keirans, 58, was convicted of one count of false statement to a National Credit Union Administration insured institution — punishable by up to 30 years in federal prison — and one count of aggravated identity theft — punishable by up to two years in federal prison.

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  1. trying to recover from identity theft is like trying to kick a squatter out of your house. The real person is treated with no rights.

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  2. How do you even begin to compensate someone for the horror of false imprisonment? I think about this every time I hear of some poor, innocent sod being released after serving years in jail for a crime he did not commit. His life is ruined and nearly over for someone else's mistake. The least that the law can do is to allow that person to live like a king for his remaining years.

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  3. So 30 years for lying to a National Credit Union Administration insured institution, and 2 years for ruining a person's life. Tell me that law wasn't written by some bureaucratic fool, seems to me he should get at least as a minimum of 30 years to life for the ruined life.

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    1. Not to mention the victim, aside from having his finances trashed, was locked up for FOUR years.

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  4. So is the State now liable for locking up the real Mr. Woods?

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