Posted: November 1st, 2011 - 12:41pm by Doug Powell

The New York Post reports a food-cart vendor repeatedly changed his identity to evade $90,000 in health violations.

Ayman Metwally, 31, would take on a new identity and apply for a new vendor license rather than renewing his old one every two years.

He even altered his Social Security number twice by writing over the digits in pen, adding curves to a “6” to form a sloppy “8,” according to the Health Department.

In 2005, Metwally was hit with 42 health-code violations, including not having a place to wash his hands in the cart. By the time his license was up in 2009, he had added 31 more.