VeriCheck Owner Accused Of Giving Info To Neo-Nazis

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12 September 2006 at 10:21 a.m. ET

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A former owner of a debt collection agency has been charged with giving financial records of thousands of people to a neo-Nazi gang that authorities allege engage in identity theft, according to an Associated Press story.

Robert Upson, owner of the defunct Recovery Specialists Inc. ? which did business under the name VeriCheck ? was indicted along with 10 other people, all described as members of a white supremacist group, the Wood Pile Gang. Upson?s VeriCheck is not related to the national VeriCheck.

Upson may have given over 1.8 million personal and financial accounts to the Wood Pile Gang.

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