trump voter sentenced for illegally voting

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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article238208449.html

Gustavo Araujo Lerma, who was convicted by a jury in August of passport fraud, voting by an alien and aggravated identity theft, had sought a sentence of 34 months, while federal prosecutors asked for 45 months to “reflect the seriousness of the offense.”

He could have faced a maximum sentence of 15 years, but U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez agreed to the government’s recommendation after delivering a stern lecture to Lerma, who continued insisting to the end Tuesday that he hadn’t really done anything that wrong.

For the past 20 years, prosecutors say, Lerma voted illegally in federal elections and was an avid Trump supporter who sent money to the Republican Party and was rewarded for his fealty with letters of thanks from the president, former Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus and current RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

Lerma, a Sacramento resident and former auto mechanic who prosecutors say was born in Mexico in 1955, is believed to have married his wife there and had children in that country. Then, they say, he came to the United States and remarried his wife in Los Angeles so he could — purportedly as a U.S. citizen — provide legal status to his family members.

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Man accused of illegally voting in five federal elections
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KYMA, KSWT, KECY) - A Mexican national who spent more than 20-years living under the assumed identity of a U.S. citizen will spend almost four-years in a federal prison.


In August, a jury found 64-year-old Gustavo Araujo Lerma guilty of aggravated identity theft, making false statements on a passport application, and five counts of illegal voting in a federal election. On Tuesday a judge sentenced him to three-years and nine-months behind bars for his crimes.

Lerma insists he is an American named Hiram Enrique Velez. His defense claims there is no proof he's a Mexican citizen. Lerma claims he was found on the streets of San Antonio, Texas when he was five. He says he has no knowledge of where, when, or to whom he was born.

However, prosecutors say Lerma was born in Leon, Mexico in 1955. They say he bought a birth certificate and social security card in 1992, and assumed a false identify. Prosecutors say he used that identity to get a fraudulent passport, and then used that passport to fly back and forth between the U.S. and his hometown in Mexico.

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Prosecutors say he used his fake documentation to register to vote. They say he cast illegal ballots in at least five federal elections.

During his trial Lerma told the court, he supports President Donald Trump, and has donated to the Republican Party.

https://kyma.com/news/2019/12/10/illegal-immigrant-sentenced-for-impersonating-u-s-citizen-for-more-than-20-years/

[Archae]

1. We'll never see this on Fox.

For obvious reasons.

[Historic NY]

2. Will he be deported

[lambchopp59]

3. Oh, the irony

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[kimbutgar]

4. Will MF45 pardon him?

Wouldn’t that make his maga supporters heads explode!

[bluestarone]

5. How many more are doing the same thing?

Lots i bet

[Salviati]

6. In reality - an insignificant number.

Don't fall prey to the same hysteria that the right wing does.