Greeneville, Tennessee – A man from Tennessee with the same name as the legend of the New York Babe Ruth Yankees faces accusations alleging that he used the names of hundreds of professional or retired baseball players to make false complaints for payments in collective appeal regulations.
George Herman Ruth is accused of 91 charges in the indictment transmitted to the American district court of Greeneville, Tennessee on August 12, announced the office of the American prosecutor at the end of last week. The 69 -year -old man of Morristown is accused of postal fraud, aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of social security numbers, money laundering, false declarations to his probation agent and possession of firearms after being previously sentenced to crimes.
The accusation act indicates that Ruth obtained or tried to obtain more than $ 550,000 through the program. He asked for payments in trial regulations that ranged from allegations of pricing of contact lenses to allegations of racial discrimination against an endowment agency, adds the indictment.
Ruth opened more than a dozen PO boxes in several cities in Tennessee for himself and Sham companies, then submitted hundreds of fraudulent complaints to the administrators of collective appeal across the country, according to the indictment. He used the names or variations of former baseball players on his own name and the number of social security of involuntary victims, prosecutors said.
The indictment does not lighten the names of the players that Ruth claimed to be, but he describes some of them. Some have played for deceased teams such as the Philadelphia Athletics, the St. Louis Browns and the Kansas City Packers.
A public defender representing Ruth refused to comment on the accusations.
Ruth had already 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.
