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Ex-Newark staffer admits birth certificate scheme (NJ)
Associated Press ^ | Nov 22, 2014 1:54 PM EST

Posted on 11/22/2014 9:02:02 PM PST by Olog-hai

Federal prosecutors say a former Newark city employee has admitted producing fraudulent New Jersey birth certificates that were later sold by a co-conspirator.

Cory Cooke, of Newark, faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to a single count of producing false identification documents.

Prosecutors say the 45-year-old Cooke worked in Newark’s Office of Vital Statistics and was responsible for issuing official state birth certificates. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: birthcertificates; fakeid; newark; nj; vitalstatistics

1 posted on 11/22/2014 9:02:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder if this has anything to do with a similar situation in Jersey City (Hudson County).


2 posted on 11/22/2014 9:05:23 PM PST by jocon307
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To: jocon307

Did this guy also work in Hawaii? And seem to forget which state had ‘issued’ a ss# for bow-boy...was it New Jersey? Do seem to remember it was a northeastern state and supposedly came about because of his drunken father. Correct?


3 posted on 11/22/2014 9:22:41 PM PST by V K Lee
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To: V K Lee

I’m not a bona fide “birther” but there are concerns about Obama’s soc. sec. # that involve something about Connecticutt. A very odd state in general btw.


4 posted on 11/22/2014 9:29:35 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Olog-hai

Who’d he sell them to? It wouldn’t be anybody in the WH or one of our new “undocumented workers”, would it? I’ve just never heard of such a thing.


5 posted on 11/22/2014 10:15:42 PM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas

I think it was back in 2004 that the Inspector Qeneral for HHS issued a report and recommendations concerninq document/identity fraud. That report says that 50% of the state reqistrars said that somebody in their office had been involved in issuinq fake birth certificates.

And WND had a report by a fraud expert who said that hackers are able to access Departments of Health remotely so that fakes can be issued by people who don’t even work there as well...

There was one county (can’t remember which) where fraud was so common that the federal qovernment will not accept birth certificates from that county as proof of anythinq. I believe the same thinq was true for Puerto Rico (?).

Document fraud is fairly common and is danqerous. How many of the 9-11 Brooklyn AQ cell had supposedly-lawful US ID and were reqistered to vote? I can’t remember the number but I know it was ridiculously hiqh.

States where fraud is hiqh are basically committinq war aqainst the rest of the States. And Hawaii is amonq the worst.


6 posted on 11/23/2014 2:47:19 AM PST by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Olog-hai

I am sure that this can and has happened in other locations, as well. Which is why it is absurd to suggest that anyone who questions Obama’s birth certificate is tin-foil-hat wearing conspiracy nut!

With Obama’s own words in promotional material claiming he was born in Kenya; foreign student loans; multiple fraudulent social security numbers; multilayer forged birth certificate posted on the WH website; millions spent on lawyers to conceal all history — you are just a nut to think anything is suspicious about the “most transparent president in the history of this nation.”

But you can keep your plan if you like your plan.


7 posted on 11/23/2014 6:10:27 AM PST by Ex-Pat in Mex
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To: Olog-hai

My goodness! What a nefarious plot! Glad that’s the first time such a thing has ever happened. Now we can be on the look-out for like shenanigans in other states! /s


8 posted on 11/23/2014 6:59:12 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Olog-hai

cory cooke did this during cory booker’s term.


9 posted on 11/28/2014 7:07:43 PM PST by Coleus
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