Posted on 12/02/2023 9:06:08 AM PST by DFG
It was just another night in the living room of a suburban Boston home in 2021.
Thirty-five-year-old Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.”
Tom laid on the couch, which had become his domain following a recent lung cancer diagnosis.
Doctors had told the 71-year-old he was probably six weeks away from death.
“When I moved here, I had to change my name,” he said mid-show, as casually as if asking his daughter to pass the remote control. “And the authorities are probably still looking for me.”
Stunned, his family absorbed the news and didn’t say anything at first.
“Part of me took this as dad humor. The authorities?” Ashley, now 38, told The Post. “I sat with it for a day. Then I realized that, if he is not Tom Randele, I am not Ashley Randele. I told my dad that he has to tell me his real name. He said he would tell me as long as I promised to not look into it.”
She agreed.
“After a long pause, he told me his name was Ted Conrad,” said Ashley, who couldn’t keep the promise. “That night, at 2:30, I googled Ted Conrad.”
What she found shocked her.
In 1969, a 20-year-old college dropout by the name of Ted Conrad was working as the vault teller for Society National Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.
On Friday, July 11, he left his job with a paper bag that contained a bottle of freshly purchased whiskey.
Poking out of the top was a carton of cigarettes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Just walk across the southern border, heading north...”
You can live that way, but no way to fully integrate into the country as he did, since you’ll be printed and photographed (and then arrested)...and that assumes you can even speak Spanish well enough to fool them.
“How about the old standby of getting somebody in the system to give you the birth certificate of a baby who was born at the same time you were but who died?”
In Texas, they print you and likely digitize your picture when you get a DL or state ID - so they’ll nail you in a simple cross-check. You’d have to have no documented past in the US (at a minimum) to pull that off.
“Or walk over the border with no ID and a made up name. Then, they support you.”
Until they run your picture and/or prints - see Post 21.
The system worked like a charm until he was sent overseas to our base. There was only one bank on base, a credit union and check cashing facilities at the clubs and exchange. The base was small he should have shut it down. He had to bring in another person to cash the checks on base. You could cash a friend's check if they signed it, we did it all the time if we were too busy to make a bank run during the day. Apparently a teller or someone at Disbursing became suspicious when a Marine cashed a government check. Initially he was arrested on suspicion of stealing someone's check, It all unraveled from there. Had he not gotten greedy, we began direct deposit shortly after and he may never have been caught. Now the systems cross check everything and a false pay record would be flagged pretty quickly.
Greed probably sinks more fraud schemes than anything, and complacency sinks most of the rest. At some point, additional checking would have got the clerk caught anyway.
You don't include prepositional phrases in the number when matching verb to noun.
Correct: Ashley Randele and her parents, Tom and Kathy, were watching an episode of “NCIS.”
Correct: Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.”
Incorrect: Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, were watching an episode of “NCIS.”
-PJ
Thanks PJT.
Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.”
was?
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I caught that too........... Shoulda been “wuz”
Just yesterday I read an article on F.R. The author said. “He pursed a senate seat.”
It does not bother me in the least when F.R. members misspell a word or make grammatical errors, heaven knows, I make my share but people who get paid for writing should know better.
How about the old standby of getting somebody in the system to give you the birth certificate of a baby who was born at the same time you were but who died? Then you could make up some story about how your family lived overseas. It would take time to get a SSN, driver’s license etc etc.
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How do you deal with the death certificate of the baby that died?
On another note: My wife received a jury summons five years after she passed away. It was issued by the same county office that records death certificates and voter registrations, which tells me that she most likely has been voting democrat for the past five years.
The invaders come across the border these days speaking Chinese, Portuguese, Hindi, Farsi and many other languages.
Rd later.
“Saul Goodman did all right.”
He did for a while. The ending of that series was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Very different from Breaking Bad. Even though it made sense in retrospect, it was not predictable. And that’s the magic formula for good endings to me.
It illustrates that there are things that, when plotting a crime and disappearing, most people don’t think of, like missing friends and family, or getting a guilty conscience.
But it’s all good, man.
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