Several weeks ago, Milwaukee alderman Michael Jackson/McGee, Jr. told a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter that he didn't have a birth certificate.
Now, he doesn't have a driver's license either -- not a license under the Jackson name and not one under McGee.
Steve Schultze updates the Jackson/McGee saga:
The state Department of Transportation's fraud unit has determined that Milwaukee Ald. Michael I. McGee held driver's licenses under two names, a DOT official said Monday.
His driver records were merged under the McGee name June 26, resulting in the revocation of his license, said Janet Huggins, a DOT program supervisor. That's because a license under the name of Michael I. Jackson had already been revoked in March 2000, and DOT investigators determined McGee and Jackson were the same person, Huggins said.
...State records show the Jackson license dates to at least 1994 and lists revocations in 1997 and 2000. Both relate to a 1996 accident in which a car McGee / Jackson was driving hit a parked car.
...The 1997 and 2000 revocations grew from a lawsuit in which Farmers Insurance Group sued Jackson for $2,246 to recoup costs from the 1996 accident.
When Jackson missed making several of the $50 or $60 monthly payments he had agreed to, Farmers sought and obtained the revocations, said George Schimmel, an attorney for the insurance company.
The issue of McGee's names arose in May when he petitioned Milwaukee County Circuit Court to legally change his name to McGee, explaining that his birth name was Michael I. Jackson.
He also said that he wanted to change his name to get a passport. But last month he told the court he wanted to withdraw the petition.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we ... obtain more than one driver's license and fail to make our payments on a car accident.
News accounts of the name-change petition drew Schimmel's attention and concern that McGee might be switching between the two names to avoid paying his debt, Schimmel said. The insurance company is still owed about $650, Schimmel said.
..."Strong circumstantial evidence" suggests McGee stopped making payments on the accident judgment after he got a driver's license in the McGee name, Schimmel said. "I would argue that in this case he has used the two personas to create misrepresentations and fraud."
I bet McGee rues the day that he petitioned for a name change.
Knowing that he had the car accident mess in his past, as well as at least two identities, you'd think McGee would have realized that all of that would come back to bite him.
...Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann said Monday that a decision on possible criminal charges against McGee would be made in about a week.
McCann has contemplated filing perjury charges in addition to a possible count of violating a restraining order in connection with a threat reportedly made in a courtroom in May.
What typically happens when it's discovered that someone has failed to pay one's debts?
What sort of punishment is meted out for having more than one identity?
Are perjury charges usually brought in cases like McGee's...er, Jackson's?
Restraining order violations -- what normally happens with those?
I don't know.
I do think that Jackson/McGee should be treated just like any other citizen in similar circumstances.
Of course, what are the odds of another citizen facing anything remotely similar to Jackson/McGee? Very, very slim.
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