冒用他人身份42年并多次投票：加拿大籍男子Gregory Allan Porter在田纳西州出庭受审，涉护照诈骗等11项罪名
Knoxville——美国司法部田纳西东区联邦检察官办公室宣布，田纳西州 Sevier County 的 Sevierville 67 岁居民 Gregory Allan Porter（化名 Tony Wayne Ortiz）于 2026 年 10 月 30 日在联邦治安法官 Jill E. McCook 前出庭，对大陪审团的 11 项起诉表示不认罪，被羁押候审；审判定于 2027 年 1 月 5 日在 Knoxville 的联邦地区法院、由法官 Katherine A. Crytzer 主持。
起诉书于 2026 年 10 月 21 日由 Knoxville 的联邦大陪审团作出，指控 Porter 两项护照申请虚假陈述、一项加重身份盗窃、三项滥用护照、一项虚假声称美国公民身份、一项滥用社会安全号码，以及三项以非公民身份投票。
起诉书指控，Porter 是加拿大公民，约在 1984 年非法进入美国，此后冒用美国公民 Tony Wayne Ortiz 的身份生活与工作，以欺诈方式取得出生证明、社会安全号码、田纳西州驾照与美国护照，并在州、地方与联邦选举中多次以该冒用身份投票。这一冒用状态持续了约 42 年。
若罪名成立，Porter 面临的各项刑期为 1 年至 10 年不等，监管释放 1 年至 3 年；其中加重身份盗窃一项依法带有强制性的连续 2 年监禁，须在其他刑期之外接续执行。检察官 Francis M. Hamilton III 公布了起诉。
此案由国务院外交安全局调查，社会保障署总监察长办公室、田纳西公路巡警与阿拉巴马州 Oxford 警察局协助，助理联邦检察官 J. Franklin Ammons 代表政府起诉。检察官办公室提醒，起诉书只是指控，每名被告在被以排除合理怀疑的标准证明有罪之前均被推定无罪。
42 Years Under a Stolen Identity, Voting All Along: Canadian Citizen Gregory Allan Porter Appears in Tennessee Court on 11 Counts Including Passport Fraud
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that Gregory Allan Porter, also known as “Tony Wayne Ortiz,” 67, of Sevierville in Sevier County, Tennessee, appeared in court on October 30, 2026, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill E. McCook and pleaded not guilty to an eleven-count indictment. He was detained pending trial, set for January 5, 2027, in U.S. District Court in Knoxville before U.S. District Judge Katherine A. Crytzer.
The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Knoxville on October 21, 2026, charges two counts of false statement in a passport application, one count of aggravated identity theft, three counts of misuse of a passport, one count of false claim of U.S. citizenship, one count of misuse of a social security number, and three counts of voting by an alien.
The indictment alleges that Porter, a Canadian citizen, entered the United States unlawfully in or around 1984 and thereafter assumed the identity of Tony Wayne Ortiz, an American citizen. Since then he lived and worked in the United States under the assumed identity, fraudulently obtaining a birth certificate, a social security number, Tennessee driver's licenses, and United States passports, and voted in numerous state, local, and federal elections under the assumed identity.
If convicted, Porter faces terms of imprisonment ranging from one year to ten years and supervised release ranging from one year to three years; the aggravated identity theft count carries a mandatory two-year term that must be served consecutively to any other term imposed. U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III made the announcement.
The indictment resulted from an investigation by the Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, with assistance from the Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and the Oxford, Alabama Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Franklin Ammons represents the United States. The office reminded the public that an indictment is only a charge and every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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