Photo:JEFFERSON SIEGEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Jeremy Wilson went before judge Heidi Cesare wearing a grey Harvard Law School hoodie, dark blue
jeans and a grim expression.
[From article]
Cambridge Police report the arrest of a New York City man on a variety of charges related to the high life he allegedly tried to settle into for a couple months at a Third Street apartment complex that included draining $70,000 from a local design company's coffers and using some of the funds to lease a BMW SUV across the river in Boston.
Police say it all started when Jeremy Daniel Wilson, if that's really his name, 42, created the best Boston-area persona since Clark Rockefeller: Jeremiah Asimov-Beckingham, an Army veteran with traumatic brain injuries from an IED explosion in Afghanistan - and also a pilot for British Airways. Cambridge Police say the earliest they could trace him back in Cambridge was December 3, which makes sense since he was only released from federal prison on Nov. 19 after serving a six-year sentence for impersonating an Army officer and stealing a judge's car.
In Cambridge, police say, the newly minted Asimov-Beckingham set up a local bank account under that name, using several fraudulent documents, including a bogus driver's license, Social-Security card and a Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty. He then got a discount on an apartment on Third Street by claiming to be both a veteran and an airline pilot - even as he was maintaining a $5,000-a-month apartment in lower Manhattan. Oh, and he used his fake discharge papers to sign up for and obtain veteran's benefits, Cambridge PD says.
He also somehow used the ID and more forged documents to suck $70,000 out of a Cambridge design firm's bank account, police say, adding he also stole a computer from MIT.
Police say that on Dec. 31, New York City Police found the BMW. And then, according to New York Magazine, they conned the con man: They contacted him and said the car had been impounded as evidence in a shooting but that he could come by to pick it up - which he did.
At his arraignment in New York on similar charges there, he wore a Harvard Law School hoodie.
http://www.universalhub.com/2016/con-man-long-record-goes-whirlwind-fraud-tour
Con man with long record goes on whirlwind fraud tour of Cambridge, police say
By adamg
Fri, 01/15/2016 - 2:10pm
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More than 200 forged checks, military uniforms, fake passports from Canada and the U.K., and other false official documents were recovered from the 10 Hanover Square apartment he rented.
[From article]
A seasoned grifter who posed as a wounded veteran and used stolen loot for a Manhattan pad gave a “full, video-recorded confession” to his latest antics — less than two months after leaving prison for similar crimes, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jeremy Wilson, 42 — whose true name is unknown because of his rampant use of fake identities in a “Catch Me If You Can”-like career of scamming — was ordered held on $1 million bail at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.
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“The defendant is a brazen criminal who has spent his entire adult life as a con artist and identity thief,” Assistant District Attorney Diego Diaz said.
Wilson went before judge Heidi Cesare wearing a grey Harvard Law School hoodie, dark blue jeans and a grim expression.
He was back to scheming right after his release from prison on Nov. 19 after serving a six-year federal prison sentence “for crimes that included forging the signature of a federal judge, aggravated identity theft, fraud, and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle,” Diaz said.
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At the prestigious college, Wilson hung around campus and “stole computers and an MIT corporate credit card.”
“He also was able to obtain a corporate apartment by posing as an executive of British Airlines,” the prosecutor added.
On Dec. 12 in Boston, Wilson allegedly used the name Jeremiah Asimov-Beckingham and fake identification documents to lease a 2016 BMW X3, worth at least $50,000.
Using phony checks and the hijacked bank account of a Boston company, he stole $40,000 and skipped off to New York in his new ride.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/man-posed-wounded-veteran-held-1m-bail-article-1.2488158
Conman who posed as wounded veteran held on $1M bail after giving 'full, video-recorded confession'
BY SHAYNA JACOBS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 9:50 PM
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