Breaking News Update to the story first reported HERE by YWN regarding Ted Floyd AKA Natan Levi: WICHITA, KAN. – Theodore Riley Floyd, 28, Lakewood, N.J.,was sentenced Monday to a year in federal prison for using the stolen identity of a deceased Navy veteran to apply for a U.S. passport. The defendant, who was indicted Feb. 6, 2008, under the name John Doe, later was identified as Theodore Riley Floyd. In April, he pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement on an application for a passport. In his plea, Floyd admitted that on March 28, 2002, he submitted an application for a U.S. passport to the Corporate Hills U.S. Post Office in Wichita, Kan. On the application, he used the name and Social Security number of Nathaniel James Levi, who is a deceased veteran of the United States Navy. Floyd received the passport and used it to help him assume Levi’s identity for fraudulent purposes. “At the time he was arrested, Mr. Floyd was living in Lakewood, New Jersey and using the stolen identity,” said U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren. “This prosecution focuses on the federal crime that occurred in Kansas and not any other matters in which Mr. Floyd may have been involved.” Melgren commended the Diplomatic Security Service of the U.S. Department of State, the Social Security Administration – Office of Inspector General and Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson for their work on the case. For all YWN stories regarding Natan Levi, click HERE. (Yehuda Drudgestein – YWN / YW-Lipas)

U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren (District of Kansas) has issued the following statement a short while ago regarding Ted Floyd AKA: Natan Levi: Theodore Riley Floyd, 28, Lakewood, N.J., pleaded guilty Monday to one count of making a false statement on an application for a passport and using the passport to assume another man’s identity. Floyd was indicted Feb. 6, 2008, under the name John Doe also known as Nathaniel James Levi. Since then, he has been identified as Theodore Riley Floyd. In his plea, Floyd admitted that on March 28, 2002, he submitted an application for a U.S. passport to the Corporate Hills U.S. Post Office in Wichita, Kan. He submitted the application using the name and Social Security number of Nathaniel James Levi, who is a deceased veteran of the United States Navy. Floyd received the passport and used it to help him assume Levi’s identity for fraudulent purposes. “Our office has received several inquiries from members of an Hasidic community in New Jersey who accepted Mr. Floyd while he was using the stolen identity,” said U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren. “But those events took place after the crime to which he is pleading guilty. Other authorities will have to determine whether any crimes were committed in their jurisdictions.” Floyd, who is being held in federal custody in Kansas, is set for sentencing July 14. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison without parole and a fine up to $250,000. Melgren commended the Diplomatic Security Service of the U.S. Department of State, the Social Security Administration – Office of Inspector General and Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson for their work on the case.

(MP3, & Documets Can Be Found Below) The shocking story which YWN broke last week, regarding an individual who was living as a religious Jew in the heart of Lakewood, NJ and currently detained by Federal Authorities, is getting bigger by the day. Besides for the many ‘rumors’ which are being spread around, it is now being reported that Mr. Ted Riley Floyd (AKA: Natan Levi) is actually a “Ger Tzedek”. As a matter-of-fact, a Rabbi Pinchas Aloof has come forward, and attested that he did in fact perform Geirus (conversions) on both Mr. and Mrs. Floyd. Although there is no doubt that this Rabbi did perform some type of conversion on them, it seems highly questionable as to how Kosher the conversion is. On Monday evening, Rabbi Aloof appeared on the Zev Brenner Radio Show in New York, and publicly stated that he studied with the Floyd’s for two years – at his Congregation Ahavat Achim in Wichita, Kansas – prior to doing the conversions. Excerpts of this interview can be heard by clicking HERE. The rabbi stated that Mr. Floyd – who went by the name Natan Levi told him in the year 2000, that he wanted to become Jewish, with the idea that he was going to go on “Aliya” to Israel. Rabbi Aloof claims that he told Mr. Floyd that being that he was making Aliya to Israel, it would be best to do the conversion in the Holy Land. Mr. Floyd claimed that he was in contact with Israeli Consulate in Kansas City, and for whatever reasons he needed to do the conversion in the United States; to which Rabbi Aloof agreed. The conversion was then done “Mikva Al Pi Din, Bais Din” etc. Shortly after, (in 2002), the Floyd family disappeared, leaving the Rabbi and his congregation to believe that they were in Israel – up until hearing the recent news that Mr. Floyd was detained by the authorities. Rabbi Aloof said that what is very confusing is that, if the Floyd’s already had legitimate Geirus performed on them, why didn’t they just show the papers upon their arrival in Lakewood? When asked what type of congregation it was, Rabbi Aloof says that his congregation is an “Orthodox Shul dating back to 1902, with a Shul, and a Mikva, etc. The years go by, and the Mechitza is removed, men sit on one side, women sit on the other side, and mixed seating is allowed in the center – as I’ve found in many Orthodox Shuls. That’s Golus. This is where we live today”, Rabbi Aloof told Zev Brenner. “What puzzles me, is that if he’s in trouble in his hometown, why wouldn’t he contact the Rabbi”? Zev Brenner asked. “Maybe he knows that I retired, although he might be in contact with the Shul – which I’ll inquire about”. “Do you know where he got the name Levy from, and did you give him the name Avraham ben Ahraham”, the Rabbi was asked. “I do not have the papers with me, and it’s going back a few years, but I believe the name given to Mr Floyd was Natan ben Avraham Avinu”, he answered. When asked how about the fact that he’s been claiming to be a Levy in Shul for the past