An Italian man admitted Friday to stealing more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts, including from distinguished authors, solving a mystery that had rocked the literary world for years. | AFP
It became public knowledge in January last year when Bernardini was arrested by FBI agents at New York’s JFK Airport.
The addresses resembled the domain names of legitimate publishers but with a letter changed here and there. Prosecutors say he registered more than 160 fraudulent domains.“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,” said Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York .
Screenshots from Bernardini’s LinkedIn profile shortly after his arrest described him as a “rights coordinator” at Simon & Schuster. “Protection of authors’ intellectual property is of the highest priority for Simon & Schuster,” the publisher said in a statement Friday.
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