Reasonable Inference
Where perpetrators used real individuals’ personal identifying information (name, address, card number) to make contributions without authorization, each instance constitutes potential identity fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1028, carrying up to 15 years imprisonment.
Citations
18 U.S.C. § 1028(a)(7), (b)(1)(D), “Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (c) of this section— (7) knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of Federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable State or local law; shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this section.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1028
“Section 1028(a)(7) criminalizes the knowing transfer, possession, or use, without lawful authority, of a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of Federal law…” (DOJ explicitly lists this as the primary “identity theft” provision used when PII is misused to facilitate another federal offense). https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1502-prosecuting-violations-18-usc-1028