A former King County Jail inmate and his accomplice were convicted Monday for a scheme to target seriously ill veterans for fraud.
Darryl Lamont Young, 47, was convicted of all 14 counts in the indictment, and his co-conspirator, Aqeelah Ngiesha Williams, 29, was convicted of 12 counts, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
From behind bars, Young posed as a VA worker to target ICU patients
While Young was incarcerated, he used the jail phone system to place calls to the local Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center, according to the records in the case and testimony at trial. The calls Young made were free, and the local VA did not receive the jail’s announcement that the calls were from an inmate.
Young impersonated a VA employee and asked to be transferred to out-of-state medical facilities. Since the VA transferred the call, the out-of-state medical center was unaware that it was coming from an inmate…