I am writing to share a harrowing experience that began on December 20, 2019. Weeks after my indictment and disclosure, Experian informed me that my information was sold on the dark web. This was the beginning of a relentless nightmare that has shattered my life.
My first checking account, a Chase account I'd held for years, was closed on September 29, 2020, due to unauthorized transactions. This was just the start. Eight more checking accounts followed, all closed for the same reason. Despite these widespread issues, financial institutions refused to allow me to deposit checks electronically, yet somehow an unknown individual was able to electronically deposit fraudulent checks into my accounts.
I sought help from every possible avenue. My local police department, the West Virginia State Police, and even the mayor of my town were unwilling to assist. In desperation, I contacted credit bureaus to place freezes on my accounts, filed an identity theft report with the Federal Trade Commission, and reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services Civil Rights Division regarding the disclosure of my information. I even contacted Rite Aid Corporation for my records and spoke to the head district attorney about the illegal actions of an assistant DA, but no one would intervene.
The situation escalated dramatically. I began receiving hard inquiries on my credit reports from institutions I had no association with. When I requested the credit card applications, I was shocked to find one from Wells Fargo containing all my information, along with my ex-husband's IP and mailing address.
Then came the mail theft. A $1400 stimulus check was stolen from my mailbox, forged, and cashed. A Synchrony Bank Amazon credit card was also stolen. Outgoing mail went uncollected for days, and I never received important letters, like a rent increase notice from my landlord. Despite reporting this to USPIS, my local postal company, and Postal Inspector Melissa Belmont, the problems persisted.
The attacks moved online. My emails were hacked, leading to unauthorized access to all my accounts, including ID.me, Credit Karma, PayPal, Cash App, and Venmo. I experienced 13 data breaches, a $50,000 loan from Discover, a home loan, two T-Mobile accounts, and fictitious life insurance policies opened in my name.
This identity theft even cost me a job. After being offered a position, a background check revealed someone had used my Social Security number to commit felonies in Texas. Despite having no felony charges and only visiting Texas once as a 10-year-old, I was not hired.
I continued to report these crimes to every agency imaginable: the Inspector General’s office, the Ohio and West Virginia Attorney General's Consumer Divisions, the governors of Ohio and West Virginia, my state representative, my state congressman, and IC3. My state representative's office submitted my documents to the Department of Justice, who took ten months to respond, only to say they were understaffed and couldn't help. I filed ten more complaints with the Department of Health and Human Services Civil Rights Division, the Ohio Pharmacy Board, Mr. Bill Johnson (Ohio State Representative), and the Social Security Administration. Not one agency provided assistance as the identity theft and fraud continued unabated.
I received notifications from my bank about charges on a card ending in 7090, a card I didn't even possess yet as it hadn't arrived in the mail. My 2023 tax return was filed fraudulently. Legal Aid in both Ohio and West Virginia told me they don't take cases like mine.
Beyond the financial and personal devastation, this nightmare led to severe legal consequences. I received a five-month jail sentence, $7,000 in court fines and costs, was forced to forfeit my vehicle, and received a ten-year driver's license suspension for an OVI that cannot be expunged. I was forced to drain my entire IRA, incurring late penalties and over $7,000 in state and federal taxes. I had to buy another vehicle and move multiple times, eventually leaving the state due to slander, harassment, and retaliation.
This entire ordeal stems from a fundamental desire for respect—to teach my daughters the value of self-worth and self-respect, no matter the cost. It's about what is right and what is wrong.
I want to share my story with everyone. We, the people, are the nation, and the right to privacy is an extremely important subject that we must fully address. Few realize the devastating impact it can have when your information is sold on the dark web. You never get that information back; you are forced to monitor your credit reports for the rest of your life. My once perfect credit score is now in the 400s. Despite placing freezes on my credit cards, these individuals have charged them. Because the cards bear my name, I am held responsible for charges that are not mine. I cannot find an attorney to take my case due to the individual who violated both federal and state laws. I spent over $60,000 from my IRA on attorney fees, yet not one attorney recovered my vehicle (which a judge had released to me) or stayed with my case for longer than two months before withdrawing, undoubtedly due to threats.
The vehicle I purchased after my license was suspended was driven by an individual who, for no reason, drove off the road at 52 miles per hour, without braking, into five trees. One uprooted tree saved my life by preventing us from plunging into a 25-foot ravine. I was pinned in my vehicle for over four hours until two coon hunters found me and called 911. As soon as the vehicle stopped, the driver fled into the woods, leaving me there. Emergency services took me to the hospital, where I was treated for a broken nose, a concussion, six broken ribs, a crushed sacrum, a tailbone broken in two places, and a broken arm and ankle.
How is one supposed to get a job and improve their life without a vehicle? How am I supposed to get a vehicle without a job? How can I get a job when every background check fails because someone stole my Social Security number? Do you see the impossible situation I'm in?
This entire situation violates fundamental rights, including Fourth Amendment Protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, the cornerstone of privacy rights. It also touches upon other legal frameworks like HIPAA, which protects health information, the First Amendment's protection of freedom of association, and the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. No individual, including district attorneys, is above the law. They are subject to legal and ethical constraints and are expected to uphold the law, ensure justice, and protect the rights of the accused.
I appreciate you listening to my story. I implore you to share it. This has been a complete nightmare, caused by individuals who maliciously failed to safeguard my information out of retaliation, harassment, and to profile me based on my medical records, all for profit.
My case started after my divorce in March 2018 when I was evicted by the court. . (My ex was awarded our 3 children, both vehicles, our home and even our dog.) I was a stay at home mother that took care of her family. I had zero income. 35 days after our divorce was finalized , i would be evicted. At the age of 42, I found myself homeless. I ended up meeting a friend whom I moved in with. Todd resided at the Washington county fairgrounds in Marietta, Ohio. Upon moving into the fairgrounds one of my landlords started to sexually harass me. He would send videos to me of him touching himself and he would make me a sexual proposal . When I declined his offer , my life would forever be changed. Immediately, he started harassing me. Every time I will leave my home , he would be in his truck , parked right across from my home , staring daggers at me. He then illegally shut off my water and my electric for over 4 months. He vandalized my home, cut my wires for hook up and would tell lies about me and would spread those lies to my neighbors and the rest of the tenants. After returning home on one day, my trailer had been moved away from the rest of the tenants. I was left out in the middle of a field with no water or electric from Sept. 1- December 24. However, the worse was yet to come… He would enlist one of his good friends, (my public defender would find this out) an Ohio state highway patrol officer to join in on the harassment against me. On 9/9/2018 a known Police Officer (good friends with my ex husband and I worked for this officer’s brother at the church we all attended) this officer would pull me over (7 blocks after he stated that I I ran a red light.) and falsify his report on me. Despite submitting to 3 breathalyzer tests (1st test was invalid. The next 2 tests both were 0.00. ) The officer would record that I refused, he stated that I refused all tests. I had 3 occupants that watched me comply to everything that was asked of me to do. I had no reason not to comply. I have my BAC results of that night.) he would charge me with 2 OVI’s and running a red light. I would then comply to a 50 min sobriety test that he failed me on. I would be arrested and my car was impounded. (They had my car impounded from 9/9/2018-5/3/2022).
My case would go proceed to 10/31/2019 when a judge dismissed my charges and released my vehicle back to me. I take the signed document from the judge to the Impounding yard. The owners wife refused to release my vehicle to me even after presenting court documents. In the meantime, I call my public defender explaining to him what had occurred. Ray asked me to meet with him in his office on December 23, 2019. My roommate, Todd would take me to my attorneys office and would sit in with me and listen to everything that was said that very day.
Christmas and New Years came and went . . I started to reach out to my attorney after the holidays was over. And I couldn’t seem to get I touch with him. I would call his office, leave messages with his secretaries, call his cell phone. I would email him and I even tried texting him. Nothing. No response. It wasn’t until March when I went to the court house, and requested my records, that I would find anything out.
In Dec. 23,2019 after I had met with Ray, he dismissed himself as my attorney . Never once notifying me. I also saw in my file, that these charges the judge had just dismissed , I was being indicted on again. My indictment would list a certain medication that I had been prescribed around the same time I had been pulled over . This medication is a medication I have been prescribed since I was around 6-7 years old . This medication is for an anxiety disorder that I have been diagnosed with having since I was 5 years old. It is called episodic paroxysmal anxiety and another form of anxiety called G.A.D. (Generalized anxiety disorder, ) These anxiety disorders will cause me to have severe panic attacks. These attacks have left me hospitalized on several occasions throughout my life.
I then continue reading my records. I was being indicted again on the same exact charge from 9/9/2018 that had just been dismissed!! The assistant Prosecutor would take it upon himself without a subpoena or a warrant from the judge, or any administrative permission to do (no authority to do either according to the distinctive guidelines of the Department of health and human services.) and obtain my personal health information. He would then persuade a jury to indict me on this prescription medication without any urine or blood ever being taken from me. I would serve from October 7,2021- February 13, 2022 incarcerated for this prescription medication. (That I was prescribed by more than one doctor over the course of my life. )
The health insurance, portability and accountability act of 1996 (HIPAA) public law 104-191 was enacted on August 21, 1996 . Sections 261 through 264 of HIPAA require the secretary of HHS to publicize standards for the electronic exchange, privacy and security of health information . In conjunction with HIPAA privacy rule, where it establishes national standards to protect individuals, medical records, and other individually, identical, health information, (collectively defined as protected health information) and applies to health, healthcare, clearing houses, and those healthcare providers. . This individual who requested my information with my pharmacy without anything from a judge, would maliciously not safeguard my personal information. (This was due to retaliation because I made a complaint with the Ohio disciplinary board regarding his unethical conduct, yet he continued being the prosecutor in this bogus charge)
Since December, 19,20219. I have had four checking accounts, five credit cards, a 1400 $ stimulus check, a chase Visa Amazon credit card from synchrony bank taken from my locked mailbox,unknown individuals using my Social Security number, and committing felonies in Texas that used my Social Security number to commit crimes. I have lenders that are reporting that Iam applying for credit card that I’m not responsible for. I have had 6 data breaches. The vehicle that the judge had released to me, the state made me forfeit my rights to. I have spent over 80,000 in attorney fees . I was forced to take from a 401 K and then, I was required to pay over 7,000$ as a result of the early distribution and penalties. I had over 7,000$ court fines and costs, a 10 year licenses suspension, 2 years probation and I was incarcerated from 10/7/2021-2/14/2022.
Unfortunately, this does involve 2 states. I was forced to move as a result of the harassment and retaliation. In combination of, the defamation of character.
Immediately after moving from Ohio-WV is when I first started to experience the ramifications of this disclosure. All of my checking accounts, all of my credit cards and all my financial information was affected along with 6 different data breaches that would release my Health information Disability code, my name, my mailing address, my email address, all of my insurance information, My Social Security number, My date of birth, etc…
Now I’m without funds in order to hire an attorney And even if I could hire an attorney, most attorneys will not Take my case as a result of the individual being an assistant district attorney.. I have tried Legal Aid in both Ohio and West Virginia. I have tried six bar associations in Ohio, several in West Virginia, I have contacted the Ohio, Attorney General Office, and the West Virginia attorneys General Office, I have contacted my state representative and even my governor. In combination with Ohio. They won’t even look at my information without representation . I am 49 years old. How am I supposed to live the rest of my life? How am I supposed to get a job if I don’t have a vehicle how am I supposed to get a vehicle if I don’t have a job and how am I supposed to get a job? If every time they do background checks on me and accurate information pops up on my record ?? How is One supposed to get on With their life ?
Current day, the fraud is still happening. It’s been occurring since December 19, 2019. Yesterday, I had my credit card company call me
And ask me if I had applied with their company for a credit card. I had not.
I have been denied my due process. I have been , Discrimination against as a result of my disability. This is against both federal and state laws what is being done to me. A direct invasion of privacy, along with unethical behavior on the officer and both judges , also A Brady act violation.
I would like to take my case to the Southern district of West Virginia out of Charleston Wv. The attorney I have for my data breaches is now not taking any of my phone calls or messages. This nightmare just won’t ever end. This is out of retaliation for getting some of the judicial workers subpoenaed to the Ohio Supreme Court and the Ohio disciplinary counsel for their unethical behavior .
I just found out yesterday, that as a result of Ohio extracting me to West Virginia I now have a fugitive from justice charge on my record, which cannot ever be expunged. I am now a felon as a result of these bogus charges. I had planned on running for city council. I can no longer do that.
Would
you please help me?
Twila Martin
3045806438
3800 4th Ave B
Vienna, WV 26105
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