I'm not done yet. More phone calls will be made and further updates should come down the road.
Ian, lawyer up pal. You're gonna need it. (Psssst. And if I were you, I would take down the evidence from my dumpy website - eh?)
NY Penal Law ARTICLE 190 S 190.25 - Criminal impersonation - 2nd degree - class A misdemeanor
Remember the anal exam given to Joe the Plumber for far, far less.
[Wayne Enterprises accountant Coleman Reese believes that he's discovered Batman's secret identity, and is trying to blackmail Fox]
Lucius Fox: Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck.
What part of the law did he exactly break??? I know you posted a link, but what sentence specifically. I don;t think he tried to ‘benefit’, it was a prank call and the Gov fell for it. Next time he needs to be more careful
Place marker for further updates....I love the smell of rotting dem dreams in the morning, or afternoon, or evening.
Uh... apropos of nothing in particular... who on Earth is Ian Murphy?
Don’t know if this has been covered at FR, but local radio guy Charlie Sykes reported this morning that the instigator of the call wrote a blog post in 2003 slandering US Servicemen.
The guy is a POS.
My husband works for Koch. They’re a great bunch of people.
Koch executives are not happy about the use of David Koch’s name by the blogger. “It was a fraudulent call,” says Mark Holden, the general counsel for Koch Industries. “There are serious fiscal issues at play in Wisconsin. Yet our opponents are interjecting us falsely into this story. But our Wisconsin story is about bringing and keeping good manufacturing jobs in the state. It is disturbing that when a blogger calls using the Koch name, it is used as an opportunity to attack the company.”
They even had someone pretending to be a Republican billionaire, telephone Gov. Walker. The phone call between this fake billionaire and Scott Walker was taped.
Having falsely impersonated an important person, the fake caller did everything he could to get Scott Walker to say something embarrassing in this "off the record, private call." The liberal media has dismissed this as simply a "prank" call. It sounds potentially criminal to me to falsely impersonate someone.
William Brohinsky Commented 1 day ago in Politics 00“
Actually, you need to read the fraud statutes. (Statues are something different.) Here is a summary: http://www.llrx.com/features/idtheftguide.htm#false
Note that there are more than one statue related to Identity Theft. Misusing David Koch's name to identify himself, Murphy violated US Code Title 18 section 1028(d)(7). The verbiage includes "or", not and, so name alone is enough to convict.
The Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act adds a paragraph making it a federal law to also use that ID in any state or local Felony crime or any Federal crime (Wire Fraud is one), so Murphy is up on 2 charges. The price? To start with, forfeiture to the Federal government of anything he used in the crime. It also, however, says that the number of victims (the whole state of Wisconsin, y'know?) is a reasonable gauge for determining penalties.
I wouldn't want to be Murphy if _any_ Federal law-enforcement agency decides to take US Law seriously. Good for him that Obama, Constitutional Scholar as he is, has proven that written law, like the Constitution, is worthless, isn't it?”