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Sharona Coutts and Sofia Resnick of RH Reality Check have been investigating the far right fanatics behind the deceptive Planned Parenthood “sting” videos, and they’ve discovered some very interesting information. The operatives at the Orwellian “Center for Medical Progress” and their fake company “Biomax” may have violated a whole bunch of laws in the course of making these videos; specifically, David Daleiden and his cronies may have violated California and federal law on forgery, credit card fraud and identity theft: Exclusive: The Faces and Fake Names of People Behind Planned Parenthood Attack Videos.

News reports that BioMax operatives presented what appeared to be California driver’s licenses when they visited a Texas Planned Parenthood affiliate lend further weight to the claims of event organizers that Daleiden and his group did indeed present forged ID cards.

To be sure, it’s possible that Robert Daoud Sarkis, Brianna Allen, and Susan Tennenbaum are real people who are in fact associated with BioMax, despite BioMax now being known to have been a front company.

However, RH Reality Check has been unable to locate any such individuals, and neither the Center for Medical Progress nor BioMax itself produced any individuals by those names with ties to BioMax.

RH Reality Check called all phone numbers listed on the business cards. The office number for BioMax goes directly to voicemail. The cell number listed for Susan Tennenbaum is disconnected. A voicemail left on Sarkis’ cell phone was not returned by deadline. We also left messages for other people named Susan Tennenbaum throughout the United States, and all Brianna Allens in California, listed in databases of public records. Emails to the addresses provided on the business cards did not receive a reply. We were unable to locate a single listing for “Robert Daoud Sarkis” in databases of public records.

This new evidence obviously raises the question of whether any of this conduct is illegal.

There’s a real stench of criminality behind this gang, and I hope the Justice Department and other law enforcement agencies will investigate them to the hilt. Their connections with Operation Rescue, a terrorist group tied to numerous violent acts against doctors and women’s health clinics, are bad enough in themselves to warrant it in my humble opinion.