Sounds like they were trying to do you a favor in asking you to hide your identity, Christoforo- no one in their right mind would hire you as Paul Christoforo.

Ocean Marketing's Christoforo Says Former Client Asked Him To Continue Working For Them Under Fake Name

Ocean Marketing's Paul Christoforo says his former client iControl Enterprises asked him to take on an alternative identity named "Tom" so he could keep working for them even after his name was marred…

I’m pretty sure in order to prove defamation of character in court, you have to prove that you had character to begin with.

Ocean Marketing’s Christoforo Sues Former Client for Defamation of Character [Paul Christoforo]Kotaku

Paul Christoforo, best known as the man who set off an Internet firestorm after a spat with a customer went public last December, has filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for then. More »