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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Matthew Barakat

Health care worker gets 2 years for accessing Ruth Bader Ginsburg's medical records

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A former health care worker who illegally accessed the health records of Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison.

Trent Russell, 34, of Bellevue, Nebraska, who worked at the time as a transplant coordinator for the Washington Regional Transplant Community and had access to hospital records all over the region, was convicted earlier this year of illegally accessing health care records and destroying or altering records at a jury trial.

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