A D.C. doctor’s office receptionist who stole patients’ personal information later helped bring down a national identity theft ring that included Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke among its victims, court documents show.

Before she helped authorities nab the ring’s two leaders, Makieta Leake sold Clyde Austin Gray and Leonardo Zanders Social Security numbers and photocopied checks belonging to 37 patients of Drs. Marc Shepard and Stanley Lugerner. Gray and Zanders used that information, and identities collected across the country by pickpockets and other office workers, to steal more than $2 million, court records said. Leake is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.