An Italian man pleads guilty in New York to impersonating editors and agents in order to steal more than 1,000 unpublished book manuscripts.
abc.net.au/news/man-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-unpublished-books/101834612An Italian man has pleaded guilty in New York to impersonating editors and agents in order to steal more than 1,000 unpublished book manuscripts belonging to authors like Margaret Atwood and the actor Ethan Hawke.
They said the former Simon & Schuster rights coordinator would often replace a lower-case "m" with an "rn," so that "simonandschuster" might appear as "sirnonandschuster," for example."Filippo Bernardini used his insider knowledge of the publishing industry to create a scheme that stole precious works from authors and menaced the publishing industry," US attorney Damian Williams said.
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