article should be moved to mark basseley youssef with redirect today the u s attorney requested that the name of the criminal case be changed from u s a v nakoula basseley nakoula to u s a v mark basseley youssef because the latter is his true legal name here's 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 defendant's 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 court's lead and switch to primarily referring to him as youssef while still frequently mentioning the bacile and nakoula aliases