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Man charged in birth certificate fraud
Published 12:00 am PDT Saturday, March 15, 2008
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B2
SACRAMENTO – A Tulare man has been charged in federal court with peddling counterfeit birth certificates to an informant working for government agents.
Miguel Gonzalez Ramirez, 63, is accused of selling two phony New Mexico birth certificates and an Arizona birth certificate for $1,000 each between Sept. 19 and March 2.
The documents were issued in fictitious names supplied to the suspect by the informant, according to a grand jury indictment returned Thursday and an FBI criminal complaint filed Feb. 27.
Birth certificates are proof of U.S. citizenship and can be used to apply for legitimate federal and state identification documents, according to the criminal complaint. Those documents can then be used to obtain a U.S. passport, the complaint says.
– Denny Walsh
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