A shocking twist has emerged in Tennessee, where a 69-year-old man named George Herman Ruth, sharing the iconic name of baseball legend Babe Ruth, has been indicted on a staggering 91 federal counts.

The indictment, handed down on August 12 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, alleges that Ruth orchestrated a massive fraud operation that exploited the identities of deceased and retired professional baseball players to submit false claims in class-action lawsuits.

The charges include mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, money laundering, making false statements to his probation officer, and possession of firearms despite being a convicted felon.

The scheme apparently netted, or attempted to net-Ruth over $550,000, with settlement claims tied to cases ranging from contact-lens pricing to alleged racial discrimination.

An Elaborate Fraud Scheme Unveiled

According to prosecutors, Ruth executed his scheme through a web of deception: he opened more than a dozen P.O. boxes across Tennessee under his name and the names of sham companies.

Then, with the identities of hundreds of deceased baseball players, or slight variations on his own name; he filed fraudulent claims with class-action administrators nationwide. The indictment specifically references players who competed for long-defunct franchises like the Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns, and Kansas City Packers, though their names were not...

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