United States v. Perez-Rodriguez

ORDER

When he entered the United States unlawfully two decades ago, Mexican citizen Rafael Perez-Rodriguez bought a Social Security number and other personal identifiers stolen from Arthur Guajardo, whose name the defendant has used ever since. Federal authorities finally caught up with him in 2008 and charged him with wire fraud, 18 U.S.C § 1343; use of a passport obtained with a falsified application, id. § 1542; aggravated identity theft, id. § 1028A(a)(l); and fraudulent possession of five or more identification documents, id. § 1028(a)(3). A jury found the defendant guilty on all counts,…