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FBI Arrest of Manuscript Thief

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Jan 06, 2022
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The AP News, and others, are reporting about the FBI arrest yesterday of one Filippo Bernardi, who was working for Simon and Schuster UK. By using fake websites and emails, he gathered thousands of manuscripts from new authors and some famous ones, like Margaret Atwood (the science fiction writer of The Handmaid’sTales). With charges of “wire fraud and …

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