IRS Busted For Stealing 10,000,000 Medical Records

Maybe the IRS agent were just trying to get a jump on Obamacare when they seized the health records of 10,000,000 Californians including those of every state court judge. Worse yet they exhibited rude and arrogant behavior while carting off the confidential medical records without a warrant.

To top it off, the IRS agents were rude, childish and arrogant, the complaint states:
"Adding insult to injury, after unlawfully seizing the records and searching their intimate parts, defendants decided to use John Doe Company's media system to watch basketball, ordering pizza and Coca-Cola, to take in part of the NCAA tournament, illustrating their complete disregard of the court's order and the Plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights.

The agents were processing a seizure of documents of an employee of the unnamed plaintiff and had no authority to seize company property nor the personal records of the 10,000,000 third party victims.

"Despite knowing that these medical records were not within the scope of the warrant, defendants threatened to 'rip' the servers containing the medical data out of the building if IT personnel would not voluntarily hand them over. Moreover, even though defendants knew that the records they were seizing were not included within the scope of the search warrant, the defendants nonetheless searched and seized the records without making any attempt to segregate the files from those that could possibly be related to the search warrant. In fact, no effort was made at all to even try maintaining the illusion of legitimacy and legality.

And the records were very confidential.

"These medical records contained intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans, information that by its nature includes information about treatment for any kind of medical concern, including psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual or drug treatment, and a wide range of medical matters covering the most intimate and private of concerns," the complaint states.

The class action seeks $25,000 in compensatory damages "per violation per individual" and punitive damages for constitutional violations which if we do the math means the IRS could be on the hook for $250 billion. Try to get that from Congress.
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