Feds: Man Posed As Trump’s Sister To Scam Cultists

NBC News reports:

A Pennsylvania man fraudulently used then-President Donald Trump’s relatives’ names and photos – including those of Trump’s teen son – to rip off unsuspecting followers of a fictitious political fundraising operation, the FBI said.

Joshua Hall, of Mechanicsburg, Penn., allegedly raised thousands of dollars using Trump family identities on his platforms – claiming those relatives were helping him run the fundraising operation.

Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York said Hall used the money he raised for his own personal spending. They said he while he had more than a 100,000 social media followers, there was no actual political organization or fundraising group.

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An impersonator pretending to be Donald Trump’s sister and his youngest son scammed the former president’s followers in an elaborate political fundraising scheme, federal prosecutors in New York say.https://t.co/bF9tb2ZPAi

— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) June 8, 2021