Alleged book thief Filippo Bernardini may avoid trial in the US
by Sarah Shaffi from World news | The Guardian on (#61DAV)
The Simon & Schuster employee is accused of masterminding a phishing scam to obtain manuscripts from top authors
The man charged by the FBI with stealing hundreds of book manuscripts may not face trial, under an agreement between prosecutors and his lawyers.
Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who worked at UK publisher Simon & Schuster, was arrested in the US in January, with the FBI alleging he had impersonated, defrauded, and attempted to defraud, hundreds of individuals" to obtain unpublished and draft works. The indictment said Bernardini had registered more than 160 fake internet domains to impersonate others since 2016.
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