He hid his name....and they tried him in court????

I'm not so sure about this one; he applied for a job as a security guard at Andrews Air Force Base in Clinton, MD and in filling out the application, when he got to the part where it says "Have you ever been known by any other names?" he said no. He claimed that he thought it applied to a woman's maiden name. (Yeah right!) He is a Muslim, and does have a Muslim name, but the prosecution claimed that he just didn't want to be connected to an imam from SE Washington who has made inflammatory remarks about the US Government. Whatever his reason, I cannot believe they actually used taxpayer funds to try him in court! I can understand that what he did is wrong; he was charged with falsifying or omitting information from his application, but how many of us have done that and at most, when our 'crime' was discovered, we were terminated; we were not taken to jail and then tried in court. A 2005 background check; 3 years ago. 2 trials, because the first one ended in a hung jury. What was it they couldn't decide? Whether or not he omitted the name, whether he did it purposely or not, or why he omitted it? And how did they find out he had another name and what it was, how did that come up? Just seems like kind of a weird thing, unless they were doing some further background checking, in which case he shouldn't have been already hired. They put this man through training and everything and then come back and tell him "Well, we missed this the first time, we're going to have to fire you now." Of course, that's not their fault, he DID lie, plain and simple; but then, if this country wasn't so bigoted about Muslims and Arabs maybe he wouldn't have felt like he had to in order to get the job. So confusing.....