NYSentencing

§ 190.78 Identity theft in the third degree.
  A person is guilty of identity theft in the third degree  when  he  or
she knowingly and with intent to defraud assumes the identity of another
person  by  presenting  himself  or  herself as that other person, or by
acting as that other person or by using personal identifying information
of that other person, and thereby:
  1. obtains goods, money, property or services or uses  credit  in  the
name  of such other person or causes financial loss to such person or to
another person or persons; or
  2. commits a class A misdemeanor or higher level crime.
  Identity theft in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.
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