Prolific book manuscript thief Filippo Bernardini claims love of reading drove him to steal works by famous authors
An Italian bookworm who used his position in the industry to swipe hundreds of unpublished manuscripts claimed in court papers Friday that he pulled off the ruse because he wanted to read books before they hit stores.
He pulled off the thefts by slightly altering email addresses of industry professionals, and would then trick people with access to the manuscript he sought into giving him an advanced copy, Manhattan federal prosecutors charged. In the lengthy submission, Brown wrote Bernardini grew up as a lonely, bullied gay child in a conservative section of Italy who found comfort by burying himself in books.
He was hired by Simon and Schuster in 2019, where he stayed until the FBI arrested him for his yearslong fraud at JFK Airport in January 2022. Bernardini wanted to read the books by Ethan Hawke and others aubefore they were in stores.In his own letter to Judge Colleen McMahon, Bernardini apologized for his crime, but claimed it was all done so he could dive into the stories before they were available to the general public.
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