Dick Durbin: “I must be living under a dark cloud because I not only had my identity stolen several weeks ago, but I am also one of…”

“I must be living under a dark cloud because I not only had my identity stolen several weeks ago, but I am also one of the 60 Senators who, like the Senator from Illinois, was a victim of this apparent theft of a computer tape of official business credit cards of the Senate which compromises our credit cards. In my situation 4 or 5 years ago, I received a phone call from a collection agency in my home in Illinois saying: Durbin, we finally caught up with you. I do not know if you thought you could get by with this forever. We knew we would find you. You owe our company in Denver, CO, $2,000. I said: I have never been to your company's place in Denver, CO. I have never done business with you. It turned out to be someone using my name and my Social Security number, who had run up several thousand dollars in charges. It took several months to sort it out, but I was lucky. I sorted it out. There are some stories that have come to my office, and I am sure to the Senator's office as well, where it took years before they finally came to the bottom of it.”