A Houston Social Security insider who turned his access to government records into a $3.3 million fraud machine was sentenced Friday in federal court, after prosecutors said he quietly rerouted survivor benefits using the identities of recently deceased men. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced the sentence in a post on X.
Social Security employee sentenced in multimillion-dollar fraud and identity theft scheme https://x.com/i/status/2019881895325040679
— U.S. Attorney SDTX (@usao_sdtx) Feb 6, 2026
What prosecutors say
According to a press release, the defendant is David Lam, 45, of Pearland, who was an operations supervisor and claims specialist at the SSA’s Houston office. Lam pleaded guilty in June to…..