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The law being violated in the 1974 Fair Credit Reporting Act which calls for a MINIMUM $2500 fine for unauthorized access and jail time up to a year. Even if you are in Congress, this law applies to you. No official duty nonsense gets you off on this one. The FTC is the enforcement body and they bust people every day for this exact thing.

Whats really great about this one is that the credit bureaus can go back and track which company requested the credit report on Steele or anyone else and they can then track it back to a specific individual who forged the written release for such information (since nobody which credit bureau access would be dumb enough to just do this with a paper trail to cover their butt). And once the company who requested the illegal record is located, they get audited by the credit bureau and all of the other requests they submitted with also be investigated. So not only will we have the illegal access of the record, but a forgery somewhere which can be analyzed for handwriting to link it to a specific criminal-to-be and we get the list of other victims. The credit bureaus are going to want to cooperate on this one to ensure that Congress doesn't pass more idiotic laws making it even harder for LEGAL access to these files.

And.....the real kicker is that in 1999 the Financial Privacy Information Act passed which allows private citizens to SUE FOR DAMAGES for illegal access of their private records - just for situations like this. So Steele can file suit and just start deposing people right and left. It could be an absolute Paula Jones trial but with real consequences this time.