CRIM CD-FALSE PERSONATION

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person commits false personation when he or she falsely represents himself or herself: to be another person and does an act in such assumed character with intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another; to be a representative of some person or organization and does an act in such false capacity with intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another; or to be another person by Internet website or electronic means with intent to obtain a benefit or injure or defraud another, or by such communication falsely represents himself or herself to be a public officer or public employee to induce another person to submit to such authority or act in reliance on such false representation. Provides that the trier of fact may infer that a person is falsely representing himself or herself to be a public officer or a public employee or an official or employee of the federal government if the person wears or displays without authority any uniform, badge, insignia, or facsimile thereof by which such public officer or public employee or official or employee of the federal government is lawfully distinguished, or if the person falsely expresses by his or her words or actions that he or she is a public officer or public employee or official or employee of the federal government or is acting with approval or authority of a public agency or department and so acts with intent to induce another to submit to such false official authority, to solicit funds or to otherwise cause another person to act in reliance upon that false representation.