A former health care worker has been sentenced to two years in prison for unlawfully accessing and leaking the confidential medical records of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trent Russel, who worked as a transplant coordinator at Washington Regional Transplant Community, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges related to his unauthorized access to Ginsburg’s health records during her cancer treatment in 2019.
Russel admitted to accessing Ginsburg’s private records and sharing sensitive details about her medical condition on the online forum 4chan, a platform notorious for conspiracy theories and unverified information. His. . .