@PNS ''The only way J&J would've got this information is from thr government.''
Or the hospital, which reports births to the government.
I never had this happen with me for any of my boys, and his theory relies on the government being fast and efficient, which they are under no incentive to do so, nor have they shown an imclimation to do so.
This is one of those rare times where no, it's probably not the fed.
The obvious way he should test this is to have another baby and use two misspellings of his name on the paperwork.