false personation

Could the @peoriamayor account be an act of "false personation"?

Have you never read of cases of false personation, in newspapers and books?

Among them, court records show, are multiple violations of driving under the influence, battery, an arrest for shoplifting and false personation of a public employee.

Both Ms. Salant and Mr. Lamb pleaded guilty to false personation.

Nicholas P. Miano, 20, of South Lane, North Tonawanda, is charged with false personation.

Tucked in its many provisions is this broad one: "A person commits a false personation if he or she knowingly and falsely represents himself or herself to be."

The charges against the nine defendants include 24 counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false personation of Internal Revenue Service employees, according to the statement.

There are Federal laws providing penalties for false personation of the lawful owner of public stocks, &c., or of persons entitled to pensions, prize money, &c., or the false making of any order purporting to be a money order.

On April 15, 2014 at the request of Jim Ardis, Peoria police investigated Jon Daniel, the operator of a Twitter account parodying Ardis, on suspicion of the misdemeanor crime of false personation of a public official.