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Anchorage Officer Charged With Passport Fraud
Anchorage Daily News ^ | 04/22/2011 | Casey Grove

Posted on 04/22/2011 11:36:28 PM PDT by zippythepinhead

An Anchorage police officer who took on a false identity that masked his Mexican citizenship has been arrested and charged with passport fraud, federal officials said today.

At a news conference Friday, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said that patrolman Rafael Espinoza, on the Anchorage police force for about six years, was really Rafael Mora-Lopez, a Mexican national working in the United States illegally.

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fraud; mexican; officer; police

1 posted on 04/22/2011 11:36:38 PM PDT by zippythepinhead
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To: zippythepinhead

Only doing the jobs Americans won’t do.


2 posted on 04/23/2011 3:40:53 AM PDT by bikerman (Where Has My America Gone?)
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To: zippythepinhead

Rafael Espinoza was really Rafael Mora-Lopez. Pretty clever to change his name.


3 posted on 04/23/2011 4:39:31 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: bikerman

And he would have been the type of cop that asked migrants about their immigration status.


4 posted on 04/23/2011 4:50:38 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: zippythepinhead

ping


5 posted on 04/23/2011 5:07:08 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: zippythepinhead

Nice job vetting your applicants, Anchorage.
What, no long form BC? Just get Pelosi to sign for him!


6 posted on 04/23/2011 5:38:59 AM PDT by Fireone (Liberals are just overschooled, undereducated, adult children.)
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To: zippythepinhead
An Anchorage police officer who took on a false identity ... has been arrested and charged with passport fraud. ... The investigation has so far not ... involved in any other criminal activity outside the case announced Friday ..."His problem was he lied his way into the job," The identity swap was discovered when ...m the State Department found that the Rafael Espinoza identity he was using was actually another person, a U.S. citizen ...

Huh? Not involved in any other criminal activity? Exsqueeze me?!?
How about...

  1. Illegally entering the United States. (Federal Misdemeanor)
  2. Identity Theft. (Federal Felony)
  3. Perjury. (Federal Felony)
  4. Mail Fraud. (Federal Felony)
  5. Wire and Transfer Fraud. (Federal Felony)
  6. Bank Fraud. (Federal Felony)
  7. Misprison Of Felony. (Federal Felony)
  8. Acting under the Color of Law. (Federal Felony)
Those Federal Crimes are just off the top of my head. A US Attorney could come up with a few more, I'm suuuuure.
And if a US Citizen pulled off these crimes they'd be looking at 70-80 years in a Federal Prison! And a Fine in Six Figures.

Paging Eric Holder. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.

7 posted on 04/23/2011 6:42:04 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: Condor51

Not to mention Inpersonating and Officer. Add that one to the list.


8 posted on 04/23/2011 9:24:41 AM PDT by zippythepinhead
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To: Cyropaedia

Si Senor! Usted un nacional del Estados Unidos de America?


9 posted on 04/23/2011 9:26:33 AM PDT by zippythepinhead
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To: bikerman
Inpersonation of an American Peace Officer.
10 posted on 04/23/2011 9:27:32 AM PDT by zippythepinhead
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To: bikerman
Inpersonation of an American Peace Officer.
11 posted on 04/23/2011 9:27:39 AM PDT by zippythepinhead
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To: zippythepinhead
*** Not to mention Inpersonating and Officer. Add that one to the list. ***

I have that covered under #8, 'Color of Law'.
It's a fancy legal term for the same thing (per the definition in my Law Dictionary).

Either terminology could be used in the charges against this Thief and Fraud.

12 posted on 04/23/2011 10:56:40 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: Condor51

Thanks Condor for clearing that up. We should charge him twice :P


13 posted on 04/26/2011 9:26:26 AM PDT by zippythepinhead
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