Prison inmate accused of orchestrating $11M fraud using cell cellphone

TL;DR

On June 8, 2020, an individual claiming to be billionaire film producer and philanthropist Sidney Kimmel contacted brokerage Charles Schwab by phone and stated that he had uploaded a wire disbursement form using the service's secure email service.The individual allegedly posing as Kimmel had contacted a Schwab customer service representative three days earlier – on June 5, 2020 – about opening a checking account, and was told that a form of identification and a utility bill would be required.On June 6, a co-conspirator is alleged to have provided a picture of Kimmel's driver's license and a Los Angeles Water and Power utility bill.All the while the alleged mastermind, Arthur Lee Cofield Jr, was incarcerated in a maximum security prison in Butts County, Georgia, according to the government."Neither Supreme Court nor Eleventh Circuit precedent recognizes an inmate's expectation of privacy in contraband he possesses while detained," the judge wrote in her recommendation."

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