18-Year-Old "Senator" Busted

Can you spot the fake senator?

Fake Senators, fake gynecologists--what's it going to be next? Fake presidents?

You may remember the 18-year-old Florida kid, Malachi Love-Robinson, who posed as an MD, according to police. He denies saying that he posed as an MD but told ABC that he has a Ph.D. but wouldn't reveal what it was in. 

Not a real gynecologist but he plays one

In fact, during the interview with ABC News, he stormed out when he was gently challenged about any of his qualifications.

Now we have Izaha Akins, another 18-year-old who posed as a senator for U.S. Senator David Burke, at Mohawk High School in Sycamore, Ohio. Although he used his real name, he claimed that Senator Burke had to resign due to health issues, according to the NY Daily News.

He spoke about his "civil service" to high school kids but when the actual senator showed up weeks later for the scheduled lecture, Akins was outed. Now he faces felony charges. 

Akins was able to pull it off by telling school officials that he would be able to attend the school in December in place of Burke's January scheduled appointment. Akins came, he spoke and he left, but the following month, Burke arrived and school officials realized what had happened. 

The excuse Akins gave was feeble: "I was duping to prove a point that these kinds of things can happen. They could easily have Googled me and they didn't."

He has a point but is it becoming standard procedure to Google everyone for everything? Isn't Google too powerful an entity already? 

Akins was given a royal tour of the school and was chauffeured around in a car loaned out by a local dealership.

He was arrested February 10th by a real policeman.

Perhaps this can be a learning lesson for not only the school and teachers who were duped, but for the entire country. 

We need to verify who is coming here from other nations. People who claim to be refugees, victims of war and persecution, may turn out to be people who want to do us harm.

No kidding.

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