False Impersonation of a Citizen

• USA v. Morales-Aponte, (3rd Cir. 2007)

... he pled guilty to illegal reentry and false impersonation of a citizen of the United States. F...

• Federal Circuits

• U.S. v. Saldivar-Munoz, (10th Cir. 2011)

...In 2002, he married a United States citizen. He and his wife have three United-States-citizen ...Saldivar-Munoz was convicted of false impersonation. After serving a prison sentence, he...

• Federal Circuits

• The Coercion of Trafficked Workers

Theories of coercion exist across multiple disciplines to explicate the ability of one actor, the coercer, to diminish the free will of another, the coercee, in the absence of overt physical force. A valid claim of coercion places legal blame on the coercer or relinquishes the coercee from legal responsibility for a coerced act or omission. Defining the point at which coercion occurs, however, is the conceptually more difficult task. Recently, coercion has emerged as a significant source of analytic concern in a developing area of the law-contemporary involuntary labor or human trafficking. It is in this setting where coercion is explicitly codified as a fundamental legal element in human-trafficking crimes. However, the laws addressing human trafficking continue to struggle with deline...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 96-2, January 2011

• USA V. JOSE AMBRIZ-AMBRIZ, (9th Cir. 2009)

... I Ambriz, a Mexican citizen, was convicted of an aggravated felony in 1980 and..., the government added a charge of false impersonation of a United States citizen under 18U...

• Federal Circuits

• 32 CFR 761.6 - Criteria.

...(2) Willfully furnishing false, incomplete, or misleading information in an appli... States, fraudulent enlistment, impersonation of a commissioned officer of the United States or ...citizen employees of the United States may, if otherwise q...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 32: National Defense

• U.S. v. Strandlof, (10th Cir. 2012)

...§ 704(b), which makes it illegal to falsely claim to have received a military award or honor. ... redrafting the Act to target actual impersonation or fraud." Id. at 1211. . In a dissenting op... it was never "intended to secure to every citizen an absolute right to speak, or write, or print, wh...

• Federal Circuits

• Springs Man's Claim to Have Obama Records Starts Buzz

A Colorado Springs "birther," retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister, has Internet blogs abuzz with what may be an illegal foray into an online Social Security data base and how he obtained a copy of President Barack Obama's draft registration from 1980. Col. Greg Hollister, USAF (Ret.) contacted the Selective Service, falsely impersonated President Obama, improperly registered his own address as President Obama's address, and by this false impersonation and identity theft he managed to obtain a duplicate registration acknowledgement card with President Obama's Selective Service information on it," a blogger posted on gratewire.com last week. "This may violate several federal criminal statutes, and apparently caused the federal record of President Obama's address with the Selective S...

... whether the president is an American citizen in a lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hea...

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• March 30, 2011

• Section 8: Powers of Congress

... States on the same plane as private citizens," and made them "pay the Federal Government for th... defendants had been indicted for issuing a false bill of lading to cover a fictitious shipment in i... of a United States marshal, impersonation of a federal officer with intent to defraud, cons...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• USA V. XAVIER ALVAREZ, (9th Cir. 2010)

... pleaded guilty to one count of falsely verbally claiming to have received the Congression.... State Bd. of Pharmacy v. Va. Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748, 771 (1976), the "F.... In addition, impersonation statutes are drafted to apply narrowly to conduct ...

• Federal Circuits

• Media Impersonator.

When Portland chef Harding Lee Smith appeared to send a Twitter message to Zapoteca restaurant calling the eatery "disgusting," "gross" and other things that can't be printed here, the restaurant's owners had reason to be puzzled. And so did Smith.

... been targeted by criminals, who use the false accounts to contact a person's real family and fri...The site has an easy-to-find impersonation policy prohibiting the creation of fake accounts. ..."Bottom line: Be a good citizen.". Staff Writer Avery Yale Kamila can be contacte...

• Portland Press Herald
• September 26, 2011