It’s not the first time he’s fooled the internet (via toofab)
But the second picture was in fact Jonathan Lee Riches, a dedicated troll and federal fraud convict famous for filing thousands of frivolous lawsuits, as well as repeated attempts to fool the media into believing he is involved in national tragedies.
The fake-out was spotted by HuffPost journalist Luke O'Brien, who has written extensively about the prankster, and has evenOn Wednesday O'Brien retweeted a post by Ice Cube — one of the many people who was fooled into believing the two photos were the same person. "The man on the right isn’t Derek Chauvin. He isn't a cop. He is Jonathan Lee Riches, a notorious con man, troll and prankster, not to mention the 'world's most litigious man.' Riches injects himself, indefensibly, into tragic news events, even if it means going to prison," O'Brien wrote.
In his profile, he explained how Riches had previously pretended to be Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza's uncle in order to get interviewed by the media; he's also posed as a member of"Jews for Trump","Muslims for Trump" and"Muslims For Hillary" campaigns at various rallies, in the hopes of grabbing media attention.
Among the many people he has named in lawsuits are Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Steve Jobs, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, all survivors of the Holocaust, the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, the planet Pluto.
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