Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Ohhh, Doctor!

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is probably not ethical behavior...

The founder of a company that runs answering services for doctors tried to destroy a competitor by hacking into the firm's computer so that patients heard either a busy signal or sexual moaning when they tried to call their physicians, the Westchester district attorney said Tuesday.

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The district attorney said the complaint specifies that for three days in November, Martin "interfered with the ability of Statcomm to conduct business" by hacking into the computer so that patients heard either a busy signal or "groaning, moaning in a sexual nature."

He also had a moving company show up at Statcomm with a phony order to pick up six boxes of Statcomm material for the state Department of Taxation and Finance, she said. In addition, he made "crank and threatening phone calls" to Statcomm employees and sent forged audit announcements to 160 Statcomm customers, Pirro said.

Ya know, Rove may need a successor pretty soon...