{"id":78090,"date":"2018-03-05T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78090"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:10:24","slug":"andres-avelino-anduaga-bilks-us-out-360k-with-fake-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78090","title":{"rendered":"Andres Avelino Anduaga bilks US out of $360k with fake ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/report-mexican-man-assumed-american-identity-37-years-191457723.html\">Associated Press<\/a> tells the story of 66-year-old Andres Avelino Anduaga who, beginning in 1974 with a fake birth certificate, created a phony persona with a driver license, social security number and a US passport that served him well over the years. To the tune of $360,000 in disability payments and medical costs as well as food stamps.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anduaga&#8217;s charade began to unravel in April 2015 during a standard review to determine whether he was still eligible for disability benefits. The man who called himself Riojos gave an address in the Southern California city of Chula Vista, according to the criminal complaint. But when investigators visited the home in January 2016, the landlord admitted Riojos never lived there but instead resided in Mexico, court papers show.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators turned to border crossing records, finding frequent travels indicating Riojos had likely been living in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation revealed the man claiming to be Riojos had a rap sheet that included 21 different names and six dates of birth, dating back to 1974, the newspaper reported. They included a firearms violation, forgery, cocaine possession and multiple DUIs, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration records showed he&#8217;d been deported in 1994 and again in 2000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andres Avelino Anduaga has offered to pay back what he owes, but he&#8217;s looking a twelve more years of living off taxpayers&#8217; largess in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press tells the story of 66-year-old Andres Avelino Anduaga who, beginning in 1974 with &hellip; <a title=\"Andres Avelino Anduaga bilks US out of $360k with fake ID\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78090\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andres Avelino Anduaga bilks US out of $360k with fake ID<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}