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   By JEFF OVERLEY
   The Orange County Register
   updated 4:45 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2009

   NEWPORT BEACH – Folders with personal information for numerous clients of a
   local mortgage broker sat for days at a public recycling site, overflowing
   from the tops of several bins in an apparently glaring identity theft risk.

   The files contained bank account statements, completed tax forms, credit
   reports and Social Security numbers, among other information, and most if
   not all had one broker in common –Seaview Financial of Corona del Mar.

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