British Columbia Dept: The charade was only exposed when the real Mr. Fiedler, 62, went to apply for his first-ever passport to attend his son's wedding in Hawaii, according to The Globe and Mail. The Montrealer was sentenced to three months in jail and ordered to pay a $1,500 fine for making false statements on a passport form, for identity theft, and for possessing passports with false credentials and the catch: the real Donald Fiedler lived about 3,600 kilometres away, in British Columbia, blissfully unaware for years while his identity was being stolen. His identity had been pilfered for more than a decade by Peter Michael Filitz, 59, who pleaded guilty Monday to taking the name and using it obtain passports in 1996, 2001 and 2006. As
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