Source for private eyes admits guilt to selling info
Published 12:48 pm Wednesday, March 30, 2011
TACOMA — A former Washington state employee is expected to serve at least a year and a half in prison after admitting he sold confidential information to private investigators and debt collectors.
Thevy Plom, of Tacoma, was a financial services specialist with the Department of Social and Health Services. He pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to a charge of unlawfully accessing a protected computer.
Plom dug up Employment Security Department records and sold the information to private eyes, process servers and debt collectors who used it to track down individuals or garnish their wages.
Plom made $108,000 over a 10-year period.
The U.S. attorney’s office said it would recommend no more than two years in prison when Plom is sentenced in June. His defense attorney will recommend no less than 18 months.
