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Supervisor Accused of Using Dead Man’s ID for Two Decades   A
54-year-old illegal immigrant from Nigeria who had worked as a
security supervisor at Newark Liberty International Airport for
two decades was arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing the
identity of a man named Jerry Thomas who was killed in Queens in
July of 1992. The accused, Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, apparently
became Thomas to conceal his status as an illegal immigrant.
Thomas's murder is unsolved. Officials said that Oyewole entered
the United States illegally in 1989 and had been using a birth
certificate, a Social Security card, and other documents to
adopt Thomas's identify. Olywole passed multiple background
checks by the security company that employed him. So who
collects Jerry Thomas's social security checks?  Photo: Joe
Raedle/2011 Getty Images