Posted on 06/14/2022 1:59:33 AM PDT by Libloather
An Ohio cupcake saleswoman has been arrested after running a fraud by stealing a dead infant's identity for the last two decades.
Ava Virginia Misseldine, 49, was arrested on Thursday in Utah, where she'd moved from Ohio in the last year, according to an affidavit.
She was charged with using the dead child's name - Brie Bourgeois - to get a job, a pilot's license, a passport, college admission and $1.5million in COVID-19 bailout cash.
During her time in Ohio, she'd been praised for running the Koko Tea Salon & Bakery and was even featured on the Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate.
But Misseldine continually changed her story and background for how she became a success.
Misseldine has apparently gone by that name and lived a double life since at least 2003, three years after she was released from prison for theft, forgery and an escape attempt.
When speaking to the Columbus Dispatch in 2013, she said her family had been in the tea business for generations.
In 2014, however, she said she was a former cancer researcher who hailed from Hawaii.
Russell Misseldine, a relative of Ava's, told The Daily Beast from his home in the Cleveland suburbs that Ava was not from Hawaii, nor was she involved in cancer research, nor were her family ever in the tea business.
Both a Brie Bourgeois and Ava Misseldine are on public record as having attended Ohio State University in Columbus.
The real Brie Bourgeois died in 1997 according to Ohio public records.
Under the phony name, she obtained a state ID, social security card and driver's license, providing a copy of Bourgeois' birth certificate and their parents' real names.
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Like the Friend’s episode where Monica’s cc info is stolen and the woman who stole it is living the life - eating out, dance lessons, gatecrashing parties, auditioning for Broadway musicals - things Monica was too ‘in her shell’ to do. She inspired Monica to live a little.
Rockford ran into a stolen identity ring in one episode.
A few bucks to the county for a birth certificate.
She got busted because her story was so elaborate and was impossible to remember and keep straight. Had she kept it simple she may not have been caught. But serial liars can’t control themselves.
It’s not much of a cheese shop is it?
I bet she voted as well. Does she now qualify as a Soros backed candidate for District Attorney?
She should have gotten elected first. Big mistake.
It’s not a complicated algorithm to run against databases to ‘flag’ certain individuals who have adopted the identity of the deceased.
I guarantee that this sort of fraud will become increasingly difficult as the years progress (at least in the US).
(and was even featured on the Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate.)
That would an interesting episode
Hey it only took 3 years for something the rest of us could get in 10 days to 3 weeks.
C’mon man!!
Well that might be the case now. It wasn't the case in recent decades. Lots of states didn't cross-reference death certificates to birth certificates. Probably with all the money spent by the NSA after 9/11, that hole is starting to be plugged. The move to requiring REAL ID Act of 2005 compliant ID's for travel on aircraft and other activities has prompted many states to upgrade the integrity of their vital records. Read my previous post in this thread.
I guarantee that this sort of fraud will become increasingly difficult as the years progress (at least in the US).
And possibly multiple people. Really the states need to cross reference the death certificates and birth certificates of everyone who dies. I know that when my father died, my county had him purged from the voter rolls the same day his death certificate was issued.
I can think of one party opposed to such policies... /s
I wholeheartedly agree. There’s no excuse in a digital environment.
Interesting “day we got married story”. I wonder if these people getting uncovered is from the real ID or just bad luck.
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