An American flight attendant has been working as "dead" for 23 years
An American airline has terminated the service of a veteran flight attendant, after it emerged that he had been working for them under a false identity for 23 years.
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A federal court record stated that the flight attendant stole the identity of a dead American child and used a pseudonym to work for United Airlines for more than two decades, according to the American "Business Insider" website.
In a complaint filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston, DSA investigators accused flight attendant Ricardo Cesar Geddes, a Brazilian citizen, of stealing the identity of the deceased American child, William Erickson Ladd.
The complaint said Geddes joined the company as Eric Ladd, and used the stolen identity to illegally work for United Airlines.
The complaint indicated that the child, William Erickson Ladd, was born in 1974 and died in a car accident in 1979 in Washington state, a month before his fifth birthday, his mother confirmed last July.
Investigators say Ricardo Cesar Guedes was born in Sao Paulo in 1972, but obtained Ladd's identification in 1998 when he successfully applied for a US passport using his name. Since then, Guedes has renewed his passport six times.
According to the agency "Sputnik".
But in December 2020, the US State Department flagged Geddes' passport renewal application with "various indications of fraud", and a criminal investigation was opened.
The agents were able to trace Geddes' identity to Brazil with his fingerprints that he had printed on his Brazilian identity document in the 1990s, according to the complaint.
Court documents said CBP technical staff compared these fingerprints to a kit that Geddes provided to check his United Airlines recruitment background and confirmed they matched.
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