Thanks Rummy, the search yielded as an active SS#. I suppose it could depend on the database. I’m sure there was an effort to get them all updated with the potentially bogus death in 1995, but as we can see, there is something more going on here.
I used this one
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
I lean toward the money laundering gold that an SSN tied to someone with multiple citizenships (American, Kenyan, Indonesian) and many addresses brings. Let a couple of people keep up the facade and use the ID to launder money - not realizing there are other people doing the same thing.
There may even be a benefit to creating and using the “Ann Suerto” - because an Asian woman walking in with that false name on an ID brings no suspicion.
This material would certainly make a security clearance problematic.