Oregon man pleads guilty to stealing ID of a deceased child DECADES ago to get ...
Oregon man, 70, pleads guilty to stealing identity of a dead child more than thirty years ago and using it to get double retirement benefits Robert Lizaragga, 70, stole the identity of a dead child in 1991 after reading of their death in the news - he said he got the child's birth date from court records He collected social security upon his retirement under his both names On Monday, he was sentenced to two years probation - he could have been sentenced to up to 10 years, but was spared due to his health concerns Under the child's name, he collected $12,509.60 in retirement benefits between 2017 through 2020 along with an additional $1,200 check under the CARES Act He has paid back the ill-gotten money he owes since his June arrest 'I’ve done everything I can to get things right,' Lizarraga told U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut. 'I apologize to the courts and to everybody I affected'
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An Oregon man who assumed the identity of a dead child more than 30 years ago so he could receive double social security checks when he retired, was sentenced on Monday to two years of probation.
Robert Lizaragga, of Gresham, 70, learned that the unnamed child had died from news articles printed in 1990, then got the child's birth date from court records, he told an Oregon district court judge.
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