An 86-year-old Maine man was convicted last week of assuming his dead brother's identity and using it to obtain a second passport and receive dual Social Security benefits.
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Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, was convicted Friday of one count of identity theft, two counts of passport fraud, two counts offraud and one count of mail fraud following a two-day trial before Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. in U.S. District Court in Bangor. FILE: In this photo illustration, a Social Security card sits alongside checks from the U.S. Treasury.
"When fraud is detected, the fraudulent transactions are investigated and referred for administrative and/or criminal proceedings. That is what happened with this case," she said.Gonzalez has claimed he took on his deceased brother's identity at the direction of the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations while participating in an undercover operation in the 1960s, according to court documents.
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