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A man from Tennessee who shares the same name as the legend of the MLB, Babe Ruth, was charged with the federal government after having allegedly used the names of hundreds of professional or old baseball players in a large program.
George Herman Ruth faces 91 charges in an indictment transmitted to the American district court of Greeneville, Tennessee on August 12, announced the office of the American prosecutor. The suspect would have invoked the name of Ruth and the identity of other former baseball players in false complaints for payments in collective appeal regulations, prosecutors said.
The man of Morristown, 69, is accused of postal fraud, theft of aggravated identity, fraudulent use of social security numbers, money laundering, false declarations to his agent of probation and possession of firearms after being previously sentenced to crimes.
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Babe Ruth baseball player on the field in his uniform of Boston Red Sox in 1919 in New York, New York. (Photo Gracious Library of Congress / Getty Images)
According to the indictment, Ruth obtained or tried to obtain more than $ 550,000 through the program. He asked for payments in trial regulations ranging from allegations to pricing contact lenses to racial discrimination complaints against an endowment agency, said the file.
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Ruth has opened more than a dozen PO boxes in several cities in Tennessee for himself and for false companies. He then submitted hundreds of fraudulent complaint forms to the administrators of collective appeal across the country, according to the complaint.
By playing for New York Yankees, Babe Ruth has become the most eminent player in baseball and has set many records. (Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images)
He used the names of former baseball players or variations in his own name, as well as the social security number of unknown victims, prosecutors said.
The names of the players that Ruth claimed to be were not listed in the indictment. A public defender the representative refused to comment on the accusations.
Playing with the Boston Braves, Babe Ruth signs autographs for fans of the home opening of the Giants of New York against the Braves at the Ground Polo. New York, April 23, 1935. (Getty Images)
Ruth has been associated with an identity theft in the past. He previously pleaded guilty before an Indiana Federal Court to a program aimed at committing social security fraud. In 2020, he was sentenced to prison before moving on to October 2023 to July 2025, according to the judicial archives.
