Article should be moved to Mark Basseley Youssef with redirect   Today the US Attorney requested that the name of the criminal case be changed from USA v Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to USA v Mark Basseley Youssef because the latter is his true legal name  Heres an excerpt from the request docket No   As alleged by the United States Probation Office on or about October   defendant filed a motion in the Superior Court of the State of California County of Orange case number A in which he requested that his true legal name be changed from Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to Mark Basseley Youssef and an order changing defendants name to Mark Basseley Youssef was issued as a result of this motion  Notwithstanding this fact defendant represented to this Court in connection with his underlying criminal case that his true legal name was Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to date he has used the Nakoula identity on all documentation provided to this Court and to the Probation during the entirety of his term on supervised release and he simultaneously possessed identification in this name as well as the Youssef identity while on supervised release in violation of his conditions of supervised release  Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne H Segal ordered the government to file this request  Accordingly the government respectfully requests that future pleadings in this case be captioned to refer to defendant by his true legal name Mark Basseley Youssef   I expect that in the next couple weeks the major news media will follow the courts lead and switch to primarily referring to him as Youssef while still frequently mentioning the Bacile and Nakoula aliases