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U.S. Department of Justice

United States Attorney
District of New Hampshire

Federal Building
53 Pleasant Street, 4th Floor
Concord, New Hampshire 03301
603/225-1552 MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
November 30, 2009 John P. Kacavas
United States Attorney
Alfred Rubega
Assistant U.S. Attorney
(603) 225-1552


NEW YORK WOMAN SENTENCED FOR PASSPORT FRAUD

CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE – United States Attorney John P. Kacavas announced that Jennifer Martinez Guzman, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to two years probation, following her conviction on a charge of passport fraud. Guzman was indicted on April 1, 2009, after agents of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service uncovered the fraud at the National Passport Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The defendant pled guilty on August 5, 2009, to willfully and knowingly making false statements to the State Department in a passport application in order to fraudulently obtain a United States passport, and of making a false claim of United States citizenship.

This case resulted from an ongoing initiative, known as “Operation Checkmate,” to identify false passport applications that are submitted for adjudication to the National Passport Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The National Passport Center processes and adjudicates approximately five million applications each year. Operation Checkmate is a joint initiative of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire, the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Alfred Rubega prosecuted this case.