Impersonator Stole Trump Family Identities In Fundraising Scam: FBI
Source: WNBC
Joshua Hall, of Mechanicsburg, Penn., allegedly raised thousands of dollars using Trump family identities on his platforms - claiming those relatives were helping him run the fundraising operation.
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorneys office in the Southern District of New York said Hall used the money he raised for his own personal spending. They said he while he had more than a 100,000 social media followers, there was no actual political organization or fundraising group.
Central to the scheme was the impersonation by Joshua Hall of members of the Presidents family, prosecutors said in court papers filed Tuesday. Prosecutors allege Hall even used the likeness of Barron Trump, 15, falsely claiming the teen called Hall a friend and partner of the president.
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stillcool
(32,626 posts)they still know how to charge people with fraud? I thought that was a lost art.
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)wyn borkins
(1,109 posts)I would bet that had he (Joshua Hall) impersonated the actual backwards-pants-wearer he (Joshua Hall) may never have been suspected nor identified.
drmeow
(5,017 posts)the Trumps should adopt him - he'd fit right in!
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)brewens
(13,582 posts)tried very hard. He'd fit right in with the family.
TroubleMan
(4,859 posts)SwannieK
(33 posts)lol lol lol lol
Escurumbele
(3,389 posts)A guy I know donated to the wall, he sent me an email for me to donate saying "it is a great cause", I told him then "I bet it is a scam, anything that comes from your party is a scam, plus it is not a good cause." Anyway, when it was found that it was a scam I sent him the article...All he said was "you can't even trust vets now.", I said "sorry, it is republicans that you cannot trust."...and we left it at that.
marble falls
(57,080 posts)machoneman
(4,006 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Knowing how easy it is to harvest cash from nitwits.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Seeing as how the Trump's themselves use their own identities in fundraising scams almost perpetually...
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)A grifter of grifters...