Aggravated identity theft · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 190.80-a Aggravated identity theft.
A person is guilty of aggravated identity theft 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 knows that such person is a member of the armed forces, and knows that such member is presently deployed outside of the continental United States and:
1. thereby obtains goods, money, property or services or uses credit in the name of such member of the armed forces in an aggregate amount that exceeds five hundred dollars; or
2. thereby causes financial loss to such member of the armed forces in an aggregate amount that exceeds five hundred dollars.
Aggravated identity theft is a class D felony.
A person commits aggravated identity theft by knowingly and with intent to defraud assuming another person's identity by presenting themself as, acting as, or using the personal identifying information of that person, knowing that person is a member of the armed forces who is presently deployed outside the continental United States, and thereby:
The offense is a class D felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.