How do you like this guy- Identity thief, illegal immigrant, businessman – a double life ?
Question by Untied States Of Latina: How do you like this guy- Identity thief, illegal immigrant, businessman – a double life ?
After fleeing poverty in his native Uruguay, Miguel Angel Ortiz settled in Hampton Roads and established himself as an expert welder. He formed his own business and obtained shipyard contracts worth more than $ 1 million.
Married with three children, the youngest about 10 months old, he had been living in a stately waterfront home in Virginia Beach. Two full-size bronze lions were perched out front near a four-tier fountain. He drove a Hummer and had a spare in the driveway
Ortiz built this life using someone else’s identity and after racking up an extensive arrest record in this country.
His case raises new questions about how an illegal immigrant who served jail time had not only remained in the country undetected but built a corporation and amassed wealth.
Through interviews and court records, including Ortiz’s confession, The Virginian-Pilot uncovered the life of a man who exploited loopholes in the immigration system and skirted detection – until this year.
Ortiz was arrested in April after he applied to have his passport renewed under the name Alfredo Rivera Jr. The State Department began investigating after determining that the picture on the passport did not match the picture of Rivera in the agency’s files. Ortiz’s life has since unraveled.
After pleading guilty in May to identity theft charges, Ortiz was sentenced Aug. 20 in Norfolk’s U.S. District Court to 27 months in prison. Upon release, he will be processed for deportation.
Ortiz, 41, first arrived in the United States from Uruguay in 1987. He left and returned, illegally, in 1992.
To remain in the country, Ortiz bought a birth certificate and Social Security card in 1996 for $ 8,000 in New York, according to court records. Ortiz assumed the identity of Alfredo Rivera Jr., the name on the documents. At the time, the real Rivera was living in New York. It’s unclear from the records whether the two men know each other or whether Rivera ever found out his identity was stolen. He could not be located.
Ortiz obtained a passport in Rivera’s name and moved to Virginia
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Answer by menameispapa
deport all illegal leeches!!!
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