![]() Woods continued to attempt to regain his identity by filing customer disputes with financial organizations in an attempt to clear his credit report. He was also ordered to pay $400 in fines and to stop using the name William Woods. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment with credit for the two years he already served in the county jail and the hospital and was released. In March 2021, Woods pleaded no contest to the identity theft charges - meaning he accepted the conviction but did not admit guilt. The real Woods was arrested and charged with identity theft and false impersonation, under a misspelling of Keirans' name: Matthew Kierans.īecause Woods continued to insist, throughout the judicial process, that he was William Woods and not Matthew Kierans, a judge ruled in February 2020 that he was not mentally competent to stand trial and he was sent to a mental hospital in California, where he received psychotropic medication and other mental health treatment. When questioned, Keiran told an LAPD officer he sometimes used David as a middle name, but his real name was William Donald Woods. The driver's license had the name William David Woods - David is Keirans' real middle name - rather than William Donald Woods. Keirans faxed the Los Angeles officers a copy of Woods' Social Security card and birth certificate, as well as a Wisconsin driver's license Keirans had acquired under Woods' name. The employee called the Los Angeles Police Department, and officers spoke with Woods and Keirans. He answered the security questions correctly and said no one in California should have access to the accounts. The bank employee called Keirans, whose the phone number was connected to the accounts. Because there was a large amount of money in the accounts, the bank employee asked Woods a series of security questions that he was unable to answer. Woods gave the bank employee his real Social Security card and an authentic California Identification card, which matched the information the bank had on file. Woods didn't want to pay the debt and asked to know the account numbers for any accounts he had open at the bank so he could close them. ![]() He went to a branch of the national bank and explained that he recently discovered someone was using his credit and had accumulated a lot of debt. In 2019, the real William Woods was homeless, living in Los Angeles. ![]() In 2023, his salary was $140,501, according to the hospital. He earned more than $700,000 in his 10 years working for the hospital. He started his IT job with UI Hospitals and worked remotely. By 2013, Keirans had moved to eastern Wisconsin. Keirans worked at the hospital under the name William Donald Woods, an alias he had been using since about 1988, when he worked with the real William Woods at a hot dog cart in Albuquerque, N.M. Keirans worked as a systems architect in the hospital's IT department from Jto July 20, 2023, when he was terminated for misconduct related to the identity theft investigation. The Gazette reports: 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. And it was only after the victim learned his oppressor worked for The University of Iowa Hospital and contacted their security department was the investigation taken seriously leading to the perpetrator's arrest. An anonymous reader writes: Could you imagine discovering that your identity had been used to take out fraudulent loans and when you tried to resolve the issue by providing your state ID and Social Security card you were instead arrested, charged with multiple felonies, jailed for over a year, incarcerated in a mental hospital and given psychotropic drugs, eventually to be released with a criminal record and a judge's order that you could no longer use your real name? As dystopian as this might sound, it actually happened.
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