Former Troy City Council Member Sentenced for Identity Theft

ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kim McPherson, age 63, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 1 year of probation, and to pay a $1,500 fine, for identity theft in connection with her casting of absentee ballots in two other people's names in elections held in 2021.

United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), made the announcement.

McPherson successfully ran for re-election to the Troy City Council in 2021, first in the Working Families Party primary and then in the general election. In pleading guilty in June 2022 to the unlawful possession and use of a means of identification of another person, she admitted that in the primary election, she unlawfully cast an absentee ballot in the name of another person, and that in the general election, she unlawfully cast absentee ballots in the names of two people other than herself.

As part of her plea agreement, McPherson resigned from the Troy City Council.

The FBI investigated this case and Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett prosecuted this case.