Posted on 03/04/2018 5:06:24 PM PST by Hojczyk
A Mexican national has confessed to stealing the identity of an American citizen, and over the course of 37 years pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in government benefits.
Andres Avelino Anduaga, 66 – who hails from Tijuana, Mexico – admitted in San Diego federal court on Thursday that he assumed the fake identity of a Texas resident named Abraham Riojos in 1980 after obtaining a fraudulent birth certificate, and then successfully applied for a California driver’s license, Social Security number and passport.
From 1989 to 2016, according to the plea agreement, he received around $361,000 in benefits -- which included Medi-Cal, food stamps and Supplemental Security Income benefits.
The fake identity also enabled Anduaga – identified as an illegal immigrant and repeat felon – to go back-and-forth without restriction between Mexico and the United States, which he was alleged to have been doing multiple times per week.
”The programs that this defendant stole from – for decades – provide benefits to America’s most needy. This prosecution demonstrates the commitment of the United States Attorney’s Office to protecting the integrity of our welfare programs and punishing those who prey on the goodwill of our nation and its taxpayers,” stated U.S Attorney Adam am Riojos, now residing in Florida, who said he had no indication that his identity had deceitfully been used for so long. Authorities have not made clear how Anduaga feigned the identity, but it is believed the two did not know each other and never made contact.
Anduaga is required to pay back the full amount of government funds he fraudulently received, and faces twelve years behind bars and additional fines.
Sentencing is slated for May 29.
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Times that by about 10 million..people just like him.
You got that right.It doesnt remotely look like America down at the SS office in Atlanta.Rarely will you here english spoken as well.
Other than using fraudulent documents and lying.
66 years old. 12 years in the pen and this freeloader will pay back a 1/2 million before taxes? What will he do run or deal drugs? “These damn Hispanics and Muslims are the real VOTER FRAUD.” Russia. No way. I do not see Russians in the stores here.
Ah, the honest materialist dreamers vs. the sponges. Maybe.
What’s worse is the American folks who fall on hard times. Because the “system” is being bled by people who haven’t, but just see an easy way to be a parasite, the former are doubly scrod.
IIRC, Bill Ayers admitted to doing the same thing back in his Weathermen days.
He’s a piker compared to the Romneys, but I think that they snuck in much earlier.
he qualified via income etc requirements
that might be the problem - too much welfare
Two possibilities:
<><> he's got a bundle stashed away----probably uses several identities;
has illegally collected hundreds of thousands.
<><> the crook lies.....he never intends to pay up.
back in the Carter years we were told to issue 999- ss#s to anyone who didn’t have a SS#... ????
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