LOOK: Poe camp releases copy of ID to dispel fake SSN rumors
A copy of Senator Grace Poe’s Boston College ID
Presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe finally released on Wednesday a copy of her student identification at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts amid lingering reports that she used a fake Social Security Number (SSN) while she was in the United States.
The release of Poe’s student ID at Boston College was prompted by the latest report that her defense against an earlier report that she had a fake SSN might be spurious.
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“In reaction to the news article that came out in Inquirer.net last April 18, 2016, attached is the Boston College ID of Sen. Poe,” the senator’s spokesman, Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian, said in a statement.
“The student ID number indicated is the same number being alleged as the fake social security number. Clearly, the news article has no basis and the evidence attached refutes its allegations,” Gatchalian said.
“Sen. Poe has been honest in her disclosures from day one. This virtue is what the voters saw in her last senate elections when they elected her no.1 and what they continue to see in her,” he added.
The copy of Poe’s student ID bears the senator’s full name, Mary Grace Poe, her photo, and the controversial numbers—005-003-1988, which was earlier reported by the Daily Tribune as one of the two SSNs supposedly listed under her name.
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The said SSN allegedly belonged to a dead person as it was issued between 1934 to 1951 or even before the senator was born in 1968.
Poe’s camp immediately dismissed the report when it first came out early March, saying it was just part of ongoing black propaganda attacks against her. IDL
