Judge affirms verdict in brother’s ID theft case
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press | |
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U.S. District Judge
Camick, two years older than the sibling who died at 3 1/2 months old in 1958, had tried to convince jurors and the judge that he was not trying to fraudulently deceive others in
Marten found there was no evidence that "Wayne Camick" is a common or frequent name and rejected the defense argument that Camick committed no identity theft by taking his brother's name because that name is how everyone knew him in
"The defendant's efforts at deception were long, persistent, and successful — at least for a time," Marten wrote in his ruling. "But a successful deception is still a deception."
Prosecutors had argued at the trial that Camick hatched a scheme in 1997 to obtain his dead sibling's birth certificate and obtain a Canadian social insurance number, the country's equivalent of a
The charges relate in part to Camick's use of the false identity to obtain a U.S. patent for a locking manhole cover and for misrepresenting his identity to a
The obstruction of justice charge stems from a separate federal civil rights lawsuit Camick filed against his former girlfriend, her company and several law enforcement authorities in the wake of his indictment. Jurors had agreed that his civil lawsuit had been filed as retaliation against his former girlfriend and business partner,
Sentencing is
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