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(KSL News) The woman accused of stealing the identities of Department of Workforce Services' clients pleaded guilty today.
Laura Bustamante admitted that she used her position as an eligibility specialist at the DWFS to access client information for fraudulent purposes. Bustamante used the information to open a line of credit at a store and sold other information for others to do the same. She also said she destroyed evidence of her crime when she believed she had been caught.
Bustamante will be sentenced on Dec. 15. She faces up to five years in prison for her conviction on unlawful access to a protected computer and a two-year mandatory sentence for her guilty plea to aggravated identity theft.
Michelle Chapman, another defendant in the case, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank robbery and aggravated identity theft in August. She'll be sentenced on Nov. 3. And faces up to 30 years for bank fraud and a two-year mandatory minimum sentence for aggravated identity theft.
A trial is set for Nov. 3 for the third defendant, John Edward Johnstun.
