While his relationship was imploding and the repercussions of borrowing money he never intended to pay back began to inevitably unfold, Joe Cafasso as Robert Stormer elbowed his way into a situation where people began questioning just who is this character who talks into a phone he never dialed, a phone which never rang?
He was stopped and because he tried to pass himself off as a person that doesn't exist: Robert Stormer, and later was found to be using the social security number of Robin Storm, a 13-year-old from New Jersey. Cafasso apparently has people in Florida looking for him, too, such as the Coast Guard for what he tried to do after Hurricane Andrea, a giant wave and a shipwreck.
They are holding him, and for good reason. For one thing, it is illegal to lie to law enforcement about your identity, and it is a felony to use someone else's social security number, which is a form of identity theft.
Misuse of another individual's SSN is a violation of federal law and may lead to fines and/or imprisonment. And, disregarding the work authorization provisions printed on your Social Security card may be a violation of federal immigration law. Violations of applicable law regarding Social Security number fraud and misuse are serious crimes and will be prosecuted.
The following provisions of law deal directly with Social Security number fraud and misuse:
• Social Security Act: In December 1981, Congress passed a bill to amend the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 to restore minimum benefits under the Social Security Act. In addition, the Act made it a felony to
…willfully, knowingly, and with intent to deceive the Commissioner of Social Security as to his true identity (or the true identity of any other person) furnishes or causes to be furnished false information to the Commissioner of Social Security with respect to any information required by the Commissioner of Social Security in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the records provided for in section 405(c)(2) of this title.
Violators of this provision, Section 208(a)(6) of the Social Security Act, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
• Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act: In October 1998, Congress passed the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act (Public Law 105-318) to address the problem of identity theft. Specifically, the Act made it a federal crime when anyone
…knowingly transfers or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable state or local law.
Violations of the Act are investigated by Federal investigative agencies such as the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
In a sane world, that would be enough to get him put away for at least 5 years, according to what I've been able to find on social security fraud. There are ample reasons to believe that Cafasso's earned a cozy cell for himself - either in jail, or in the loony bin. I personally don't know of any people who talk into a phone that I didn't dial and that didn't ring.
Somehow, Joseph A. Cafasso puts people in a position where they run him out of town, but don't press charges; so he just goes on to the next sucker. When you're traveling across the country doing so, and the FBI and journalists have used you as a source, they won't be particularly interested in the truth coming out.
If Larry Johnson at No Quarter is contacted and informed that Robert Stormer is Joe Cafasso, do you think he'll remove the articles that Robert Stormer has written on that site? It will be interesting to see; but he's conned so many people so many times, it's amazing when you seriously take a look at the wreckage he's left behind in peoples' lives.
It is astonishing that he gets very little in terms of natural consequences for this behavior; he just moves on, and in the end, people are happy to be rid of him.
It's not illegal to find rich lonely females, and it's not illegal to borrow money from them. It's not illegal to ignore the debts and skip out, which he has done time and again, and which he's going to do this time. But it is illegal to present yourself as someone that you're not; give a name that is not legally yours, etc. - it's called FRAUD and Embezzlement if you scam someone out of their money on false pretenses.
This has been the method that works for him, and although might be embarrassing to the women he's conned, it doesn't seem to phase him at all...
There is an element of truth to every con artist's game; it's how he pulls in his potential victims.
They just need to remember that where Cafasso is concerned, it's not on the 'up and up' and someone will get hurt - because this is what he DOES. This has been his career - not rescuing people out of a C-130, no Desert Storm, no diving to recover shipwrecks, no humanitarian causes.
Joe Cafasso's cause is himself.
I am open to ideas as to what can be done, many people would like to see him thrown in jail and watch the jailer throw away the key.
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