U.S. federal agents arrested an Italian citizen on Wednesday and accused him of running a years-long scam in which he allegedly stole valuable unpublished literary manuscripts, officials say.
on Wednesday and accused of him running a years-long scam in which he allegedly stole valuable unpublished literary manuscripts, officials said.
While the court document didn't name any victims, it said Bernardini allegedly fooled a Pulitzer Prize-winning author in September 2020 and scored that writer's unpublished work by"impersonating a well-known editor and publisher." "We were shocked and horrified to learn of the allegations of fraud and identity theft by an employee of Simon & Schuster UK. The employee has been suspended pending further information on the case," Senior Vice President Adam Rothberg said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday.
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