Like a Hollywood whodunit, FBI catch mystery man who conned publishers, authors and agents just to get a peek at books
Someone was impersonating literary agents and publishers to obtain the prepublication manuscripts of mostly famous authors, including Stieg Larsson, Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
Suspicion fell on fanatical readers. And frustrated writers bent on plagiarism. Hackers. Desperate book scouts. Organized crime. The Russians, of course. New York’s reporter, Reeves Wiedeman, acknowledged that the primary consequence of the thefts was “annoyance.” Also that he lost his mind on the story: two of his editors had to sit him down and say he “couldn’t spend all year investigating a crime with no real victims. The world was sick and on fire with actual cyberattacks knocking hospitals and pipelines off-line.”
It has been reported elsewhere that Bernardini’s father is a physician and small-time Italian politician with progressive leanings. His boyfriend posted his stupidly high bail of $300,000. Most amusing in the whole affair is the U.S. Department of Justice’s press release announcing the indictment of Bernardini, apparently ghosted by the hacks at Popular Detective:
No doubt Bernardini caused some people anxiety and distress, maybe even a sleepless night. But he’s no John Derringer as the G-men seem to think. Jailing him is nuts.
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