Hardworking Minnesota father with squeaky clean past has life ruined after his social security number was stolen by KILLER Migrant
On paper, Daniel Kluver was a serial tax evader who had caused the death of an elderly man in a car crash.
But that couldn’t have been further from the truth for the factory worker father who had spent his entire life in a tiny rural town in Minnesota - and had never so much as had a brush with the law.
For more than a decade, Kluver was hounded by the IRS and pushed to the brink of bankruptcy - until it finally emerged that the real culprit was
an illegal migrant who had stolen his identity.
Kluver, 42, had known something was wrong ever since the IRS first slammed his family with tax bills he swore he didn’t owe more than a decade ago.
Despite living quietly in Olivia, Minnesota, for over 40 years, the factory worker suddenly began receiving mysterious pay stubs for jobs across the Midwest.
To the IRS, it looked like he was working multiple jobs and earning more than $130,000 a year - while only paying taxes on a single salary.
Despite filing identity theft reports and contacting law enforcement about the suspicious debt,
Kluver received no relief or clarity.
It wasn’t until an
ICE raid earlier this year uncovered an undocumented Guatemalan, Romeo Perez-Bravo - who had bought Kluver’s Social Security number on the black market - that the truth finally came out.
Kluver, left, and Kristy, right, were financially ruined by the IRS billing them for taxes on income they were not earning
Romeo Perez-Bravo was arrested in March for stealing Kluver's identity
Kluver said that throughout the ordeal, it felt like he 'lost all control over who I am,' reported the
New York Times.
It came to a head in 2024 when the Sunday school teacher and basketball coach was pulled over by police.
Daniel Kluver, a hardworking Minnesota father, was slammed with IRS debt after an illegal migrant stole his identity and was working under his name for 15 years.
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