Northern District of Iowa Former Hospital Administrator Pleads Guilty in Identity Theft Scheme That Spanned Three Decades United States Department of Justice
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ppA former Iowa hospital administrator who lived under a false identity for more than 30 years and caused the false imprisonment of his victim pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids Iowa Matthew David Keirans age 58 from Hartland Wisconsin was convicted of one count of false statement to a national credit union administration insured institution and one count of aggravated identity theftppEvidence presented at hearings in the case established that Keirans and his identity theft victim worked together at a hotdog cart in Albuquerque New Mexico in the late 1980s Keirans assumed the victims identity and for the next three decades used that identity in every aspect of his life Keirans obtained several false documents in the victims name including a Kentucky birth certificateppIn 2013 Keirans obtained employment as a highlevel administrator in an Iowa City hospital Keirans provided the hospital with false identification documents during the hiring process including a fictitious I9 form social security number date of birth and other identification documents in his victims name After getting hired Keirans worked for the hospital remotely from his residence in Wisconsin Keirans access to and roles in the system architecture of the hospitals computer infrastructure were the highest it could be and Keirans was the key administrator of critical systemsppBetween August 2016 and May 2022 Keirans repeatedly obtained vehicle and personal loans from two credit unions in the Northern District of Iowa using the victims name social security number and date of birth Keirans obtained eight loans with a total value of over 200000 from the credit unionsppKeirans also maintained deposits at a national bank In 2019 the victim who was homeless at the time entered the branch of the national bank in Los Angeles California and told a branch manager that he had recently discovered that someone was using his credit and had accumulated large amounts of debt The victim stated that he did not want to pay the debt and wished to close his accounts at the bank The victim presented the bank with his true social security card as well as an authentic State of California identification card Due to the large amount of currency in the accounts the branch manager asked the victim a series of security questions which the victim was unable to answer The national bank then called the Los Angeles Police Department LAPDppLAPD officers spoke with Keirans on the telephone who stated he lived in Wisconsin and did not give anyone in California permission to access his bank accounts After faxing the LAPD a series of phony identification documents the LAPD arrested Keirans victim on two felony charges The victim was charged in Keirans name and held without bail at the Los Angeles County JailppIn the ensuing months Keirans contacted the LAPD and Los Angeles District Attorney LADA numerous times requesting updates on the victims prosecution Meanwhile Keirans victim continued to assert throughout the California criminal proceedings that he was not Keirans A California state court judge ultimately found Keirans victim was not mentally competent to stand trial and ordered Keirans victim to a California mental hospital The California state court also ordered Keirans victim to receive psychotropic medication ppIn March 2021 Keirans victim pled no contest to the two felony charges in exchange for a timeserved sentence and immediate release from custody In total Keirans victim spent 428 days in county jail and 147 days in the mental hospital as a result of Keirans false reports to the LAPD and LADA The state court also ordered Keirans victim to use only their true name Matthew Keirans in the futureppAfter his release from jail and hospital Keirans victim made numerous attempts to regain his identity For his part Keirans continued to make false reports and statements to law enforcement officials in Wisconsin and CaliforniappIn January 2023 after learning where Keirans was employed the victim contacted the Iowa City hospitals security department about Keirans The hospital referred Keirans complaint to a local law enforcement agency which assigned an experienced detective to investigate the victims complaint The detective conducted an investigation and over the course of the ensuing months unraveled Keirans identity theft scheme Among other things the detective obtained DNA evidence that conclusively proved that Keirans was not the son of an elderly man in Kentucky as Keirans had claimed but that Keirans victim was the mans sonppDuring an interview with the detective in July 2023 Keirans initially insisted that the victim was crazy and needed help and should be locked up When the detective presented Keirans with the results of the DNA testing however Keirans confessed to the threedecade identity theft scheme Keirans also admitted to providing fraudulent documents to authorities in Los Angeles from his residence in Wisconsin to aid in the arrest prosecution and incarceration of the victim ppSentencing before United States District Court Chief Judge CJ Williams will be set after a presentence report is prepared Keirans remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing Keirans faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 2 years imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of 32 years imprisonment a 125 million fine and five years of supervised release following any imprisonmentppThe case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Timothy L Vavricek and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the University of Iowa Police Department ppCourt file information at httpsecfianduscourtsgovcgibinloginpl ppThe case file number is 23CR1020ppFollow us on Twitter USAONDIAppNorthern District of IowappMain Office
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ppA former Iowa hospital administrator who lived under a false identity for more than 30 years and caused the false imprisonment of his victim pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids Iowa Matthew David Keirans age 58 from Hartland Wisconsin was convicted of one count of false statement to a national credit union administration insured institution and one count of aggravated identity theftppEvidence presented at hearings in the case established that Keirans and his identity theft victim worked together at a hotdog cart in Albuquerque New Mexico in the late 1980s Keirans assumed the victims identity and for the next three decades used that identity in every aspect of his life Keirans obtained several false documents in the victims name including a Kentucky birth certificateppIn 2013 Keirans obtained employment as a highlevel administrator in an Iowa City hospital Keirans provided the hospital with false identification documents during the hiring process including a fictitious I9 form social security number date of birth and other identification documents in his victims name After getting hired Keirans worked for the hospital remotely from his residence in Wisconsin Keirans access to and roles in the system architecture of the hospitals computer infrastructure were the highest it could be and Keirans was the key administrator of critical systemsppBetween August 2016 and May 2022 Keirans repeatedly obtained vehicle and personal loans from two credit unions in the Northern District of Iowa using the victims name social security number and date of birth Keirans obtained eight loans with a total value of over 200000 from the credit unionsppKeirans also maintained deposits at a national bank In 2019 the victim who was homeless at the time entered the branch of the national bank in Los Angeles California and told a branch manager that he had recently discovered that someone was using his credit and had accumulated large amounts of debt The victim stated that he did not want to pay the debt and wished to close his accounts at the bank The victim presented the bank with his true social security card as well as an authentic State of California identification card Due to the large amount of currency in the accounts the branch manager asked the victim a series of security questions which the victim was unable to answer The national bank then called the Los Angeles Police Department LAPDppLAPD officers spoke with Keirans on the telephone who stated he lived in Wisconsin and did not give anyone in California permission to access his bank accounts After faxing the LAPD a series of phony identification documents the LAPD arrested Keirans victim on two felony charges The victim was charged in Keirans name and held without bail at the Los Angeles County JailppIn the ensuing months Keirans contacted the LAPD and Los Angeles District Attorney LADA numerous times requesting updates on the victims prosecution Meanwhile Keirans victim continued to assert throughout the California criminal proceedings that he was not Keirans A California state court judge ultimately found Keirans victim was not mentally competent to stand trial and ordered Keirans victim to a California mental hospital The California state court also ordered Keirans victim to receive psychotropic medication ppIn March 2021 Keirans victim pled no contest to the two felony charges in exchange for a timeserved sentence and immediate release from custody In total Keirans victim spent 428 days in county jail and 147 days in the mental hospital as a result of Keirans false reports to the LAPD and LADA The state court also ordered Keirans victim to use only their true name Matthew Keirans in the futureppAfter his release from jail and hospital Keirans victim made numerous attempts to regain his identity For his part Keirans continued to make false reports and statements to law enforcement officials in Wisconsin and CaliforniappIn January 2023 after learning where Keirans was employed the victim contacted the Iowa City hospitals security department about Keirans The hospital referred Keirans complaint to a local law enforcement agency which assigned an experienced detective to investigate the victims complaint The detective conducted an investigation and over the course of the ensuing months unraveled Keirans identity theft scheme Among other things the detective obtained DNA evidence that conclusively proved that Keirans was not the son of an elderly man in Kentucky as Keirans had claimed but that Keirans victim was the mans sonppDuring an interview with the detective in July 2023 Keirans initially insisted that the victim was crazy and needed help and should be locked up When the detective presented Keirans with the results of the DNA testing however Keirans confessed to the threedecade identity theft scheme Keirans also admitted to providing fraudulent documents to authorities in Los Angeles from his residence in Wisconsin to aid in the arrest prosecution and incarceration of the victim ppSentencing before United States District Court Chief Judge CJ Williams will be set after a presentence report is prepared Keirans remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing Keirans faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 2 years imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of 32 years imprisonment a 125 million fine and five years of supervised release following any imprisonmentppThe case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Timothy L Vavricek and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the University of Iowa Police Department ppCourt file information at httpsecfianduscourtsgovcgibinloginpl ppThe case file number is 23CR1020ppFollow us on Twitter USAONDIAppNorthern District of IowappMain Office
111 7th Ave SE
Box 1
Cedar Rapids IA 52401ppEmail USAONDIAppTelephone 319 3636333
Fax Line 319 3631990ppStay ConnectedppppHave a question about Government Servicesp
