Mexican national impersonated U.S. citizen and stole $360,908.85 from California government agencies

Andres Avelino Anduaga, a Mexican national admitted to impersonating an American citizen for more than 30 years. He was sentenced in San Diego to 37 months in federal prison for stealing more than $350,000 in government benefits from government agencies.

He had also been deported twice, in 1994 and 2000.



According to Fox5sandiego, "a federal judge also ordered Anduaga to repay $360,908.85 in restitution to the Social Security Administration, the California Department of Health Care Services and the county of San Diego."

"In 1980, Anduaga, already a convicted felon, used a birth certificate belonging to a U.S. citizen to obtain a California driver’s license and a Social Security card, then used his new false identity to commit a variety of crimes over the next 22 years, according to court documents."

https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/07/13/man-gets-prison-time-for-faking-citizenship-stealing-350k-in-benefits/

"U.S. District Judge John Houston sentenced Anduaga for theft of public property and being in the U.S. illegally."

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-government-fraud-20180713-story.html

"Anduaga admitted in his plea that despite being deported twice — in 1994 and 2000 — he was able to return and travel freely between the United States and Mexico using a U.S. passport that he obtained via the same stolen identity he used to defraud public assistance programs."