all run by a man who used the name bobby thompson. >> had a great story. help our troops.r troops family. talk about iraq. talk about afghanistan. >> reporter: and thanks to tens of thousands of dollars of charity money in political donations, the man called bobby thompson got his picture taken with president bush, senator john mccain. and rudolph you yanni, among others, adding credibility to his charity's spiel. >> i figured he was a real player. >> reporter: and yet he was an imposter. >> absolutely. >> reporter: looking disheveled in court today in cleveland, he faced charges including identity theft and rep fused to tell the judge his real name or anything about his background. >> i believe, your honor, that the state has a burden of proof as to that. >> reporter: thompson told the u.s. marshals that caught him he preferred to be called mr. x. >> he signs his name mr. x. he's not admitting who he is. >> reporter: and even his former lawyer says she doesn't know he real name. >> i have no idea. >> reporter: helen mac murray admits she fell for the pitch that the u.s. n

bobby thompson is the man.d scamming people in 40 states. he had been on the run for two years. >>> every week, we hear about the numbers of people looking for a job and simply cannot find one. why are some employers saying we are hiring, but cannot find workers. we are looking at businesses who have positions and cannot fill the positions. yesterday, we hit the east coast and today, we hit the west coast. in california, unemployment is at 11%. it is sill higher than the national rate of 8.2%. let's bring in ali curry. he owns a company woopra. he wants to double the size in the next couple of months. ali, welcome. >> hi, how are you? good morning. >> you put out the word for more workers. you have plenty of people to choose from and what happens? >> well, first we moved to san francisco and the plan was to get the talent pool in the region. the problem is there is a huge demand on designers and it is so hard. at the same time, there are few designers working for companies. i have been spending time with the de

police believe it's connected to a fugitive named bobby thompson.fake charities for military veterans. thompson was indicted in ohio in 2010. and is now in federal custody. >>> well, federal agents uncover the largest medicare fraud operation in recent history. these are agents raiding a suspected office in detroit. more than 100 people in seven different cities are charged in the case. the schemes involve over $450 million in false medicare billings. those accused include doctors, nurses, social workers and healthcare company owners. >>> check in with eyewitness news at 6:00. for these stories and more coming up. vic is standing by with a preview. >>> of course, we'll keep you updated on the breaking news. baltimore's police chief decides to retire. >>> i'm mike schuh. groundbreaking work boy a hopkins astromommer, who captures a black hole eating a star. see this once in a lifetime event. when we return. >>> check in for these stories and the breaking news. coming up at 6:00. back to you. >> thank you, vic. >>> it was only expected to fetch $80 mi

bobby scott from the commonwealth of virginia. bennie thompson from mississippi is our chairman. thank you. [applause] and keith adelson from minnesota. [applause] >> i am just yelling at her because she took all the time. i am co-director of an organization called advancement project. we are the next generation civil rights organization that believes the change will happen from the grassroots up. what we do is support grass- roots movements to work for racial justice. as you can see, from all that you have heard so far, in 2008, turnout among african-americans, latinos, and young voters was up. in 2010, we sat home. and others were planning. in 2010, there was a sweep of state legislatures by the republican party. i want to say that i am from a non-partisan organization, so i'm just telling you the facts. so in in 2010, when they took over the state legislatures, they moved very quickly in 2011 to redistrict themselves into power for 20-30 years. in 2011, they quickly also moved to put in place new rules around voting because they saw the changing demographics in this country an

congressman bishop from the state of georgia, and congressman bobby scott from the commonwealth of virginia. congressman benny thompson from mississippi. [applause] thank you. there he is. keith from minnesota. [applause] >> you took all the time. [laughter] good morning, how are you all? i'm judith brown, and we are a next generation civil rights organization that believes that change is going to happen from the grass roots up. we support grass roots movements to work for racial justice. as you can see from all that you've heard so far, you know, in 2008, turnout among african-american and young voters were up. in 2010, we sat home, and others were planning. in 2010, there was a sweep of state legislatures by the republican party, and i will say i'm from a non-partisan organization so i'm just telling you the facts so in 2010, when they took over the state legislature, they moved quickly in 2011 to redistrict themselves back into power for 20-30 years. in 2011 they also moved to put in place new rules around voting because they saw changing demographics in this country, and they saw we could actually turn out in good