Filippo Bernardini: Man blamed for taking unpublished books captured
An Italian man has been captured in New York for mimicking figures from the distributing business on the web to falsely acquire unpublished, original copies of books and different books. The FBI captured Filippo Bernardini at the JFK air terminal on Wednesday.
Authoritative archives claim he enlisted more than 160 phony web areas from 2016. He will show up under the steady gaze of a government court in Manhattan on Thursday.
Bernardini's capture could clarify a secret that has astounded the abstract world for a long time, with specialists, editors, and Booker prize adjudicators succumbing to phishing tricks from somewhat modified authority-looking email addresses, mentioning compositions of works writers including Booker Prize-champ Margaret Atwood.
In a meeting with The Bookseller in 2019, Atwood affirmed there had been "coordinated endeavors to take the original copy" of her book The Testaments before it was delivered.
"There were bunches of fake messages from individuals attempting to winkle even only three pages, even anything," she noted.
As per The Guardian and The New York Times, creator Sally Rooney and entertainer Ethan Hawke were likewise designated along these lines.
Typical People creator Sally Rooney was among the creators designated
The FBI claims Bernardini "imitated, cheated, and endeavored to swindle, many people" to acquire unpublished and draft works. Anyway, it isn't yet clear why he might have done it.
Original copies were not found to have been spilled on the web, nor were any payment requests made, the New York Times noted.
'Stunned and alarmed.'
The Italian worked at the London-based distributor Simon and Schuster, yet there is no idea that the distributing house is to blame, and they are not named in the legitimate papers.
In an assertion given to the, a representative for the organization said they had suspended Bernardini awaiting additional data and were "stunned and alarmed" by the charges.
"The care of our creators' protected innovation is of essential significance to Simon and Schuster and for all in the distributing business, and we are appreciative to the FBI for examining these occurrences and bringing charges against the supposed culprit," she added.
US lawyer Damian Williams said Bernardini "supposedly imitated distributing industry people to have creators, including a Pulitzer prize victor, send him prepublication original copies for his own advantage".
He added: "This genuine storyline currently peruses as a useful example, with the unexpected development of Barnardini confronting government criminal accusations for his wrongdoings."