Hospital worker who sold medical records of Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett to tabloids has died

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Hospital Worker Who Sold Out Celebs Dies

Posted May 9th 2009 7:30AM by TMZ Staff

Bizzare twist in the case of the hospital worker who sold medical records of Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett to the tabloids ... she has died.

Lawanda Jackson pled guilty in December to violating the federal medical privacy law. She was scheduled to be sentenced on Monday, but her lawyer notified the judge that his client died from breast cancer on March 24.

Jackson had worked for the hospital for 32 years before her arrest.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/05/09/hospital-worker-who-sold-out-celbs-dies/

[Arctic Dave]

1. ? Huh?

[dflprincess]

2. She probably sold their records

to help cover her own out of pocket medical expenses.

[malaise]

9. I had the identical thought n/t

[WI_DEM]

10. That was the first thing to pop into my head too.

Not to excuse what she did. I work in the healthcare industry too, and understand how wrong it is to do what she did.

[liberalmuse]

3. If we had single payer health care, this wouldn't have happened.

I'm kidding. Sort of.

[Ian David]

4. I want to publish photos of her corpse. n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. It's not very often

that you get to see my old Italian grandmother's favorite saying in action, but this is one of those times.

"You spit up in the air, it lands in your face."

[emilyg]

6. I like that.

[dysfunctional press]

7. not on a windy day.

just sayin'.

[Berry Cool]

8. Yeah...it's funny.

It'd be one thing if the only reason people got deadly diseases and died from them was because they did things that were inconsiderate of others in a similar boat.

Too bad the universe doesn't work that neatly, most of the time. Instead, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.