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Bobby Thompson, left, flanked by his attorney Joseph Patituce, faces a third day of testimony in his trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court today.

(Marvin Fong, The Plain dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Prosecutors continued to pin a tail of multiple identities to accused veterans charity swindler Bobby Thompson during testimony Wednesday morning in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

Authorities say Thompson is a stolen identity used by John Cody, who is charged with bilking contributors to his U.S. Navy Veterans Association (USNVA) out of more than $100 million (including an estimated $3 million from Ohio donors) from 2002-10.

The first witness was Tampa dentist Gary Steen, who matched the photos used on nine sets of identity cards from several different states to the Bobby Thompson of the USNVA, whom he knew as a patient and identified in court.

Next up was Tim Curtis, owner of a UPS store in Tampa where Thompson set up a mail box for the USNVA. Curtis identified a photo used by Thompson to supposedly show a USNVA office, as actually the site of his own UPS store.

A third witness was Mark Gelvan, head of the professional fundraising and telemarketing firm in New Jersey hired by Thompson to solicit funds for the USNVA in 2003 and 2004. Gelvan, who ran the All Pro Telemarketing Associates Corp. at that time, said he was instructed by Thompson to limit the amount of money collected in states where a certain amount of donations raised would trigger a mandatory audit, "which gets costly."

Trial testimony continues this afternoon.

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