Man with same name as Babe Ruth charged with using old baseball players’ names for settlement fraud

Greeneville, Tenn. (AP) – A Tennessee man with the same name as the legend of New York Yankees, Babe Ruth, faces charges that claim that he has used the names of hundreds of dead or retired professional baseball players to make false claims for payments in class action settlements.

George Herman Ruth is accused of 91 census in the indictment given at the US Regional Court in Tennessee, Greeneville late last week. Morristown’s 69 -year -old child’s postal fraud, aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of social security numbers, money laundering, supervised freedom worker wrong declarations and previously convicted of crime after being accused of having firearms.

The indictment said Ruth was trying to buy more than $ 550,000 through the plan or trying to get it. In the indictment, he added that he was looking for payment in cases varying from contact lens pricing allegations to a personnel agency.

Ruth, according to the indictment, opened more than a dozen PO box for himself and fake companies in a few Tennessee, then presented hundreds of fraudulent claims to class action administrators throughout the country. Prosecutors said that the former baseball players used their own name or variations of their own name and social security numbers of unaware victims.

The indictment does not list the names of the players claimed by Ruth, but defines some. For example, some of them Philadelphia Athletics, St. He played for invalid teams like Louis Browns and Kansas City Packers.

A public advocate representing Ruth refused to comment on the charges.

Ruth was previously found guilty of the plan to make a social security fraud at an Indiana Federal Court. According to the court records, he was sentenced to imprisonment before he made probation from October 2023 to July 2025 in 2020.