Georgia gang inmate, 31, ‘steals $11M while in max security jail after claiming to be billionaires, including Sidney Kimmel, and opening fake bank accounts in his name’
MailOnline | 10 October 2022 | Matt Powell

A Georgia inmate stole $11 million from a billionaire while in jail. A court heard gang member Arthur Lee Cofield impersonated Sidney Kimmel over the phone. The 31-year-old allegedly then bought a mansion in Atlanta worth $4.4 million.

Excellent due diligence by the realtors, the Registry of Deeds, and the banks involved.

A Georgia gang inmate serving 14 years for armed robbery allegedly impersonated a billionaire while locked up in a maximum-security prison and stole $11 million – using the cash to buy a mansion in Atlanta.

Arthur Lee Cofield Jr.,

— Hey! That’s the guy I just sent my house payment to! —

is accused of accessing the accounts of Sidney Kimmel, whose entertainment company is behind films such as ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and ‘Moneyball’, from inside a Georgia prison with the help of contraband cell phones.

Cofield, 31, is said to have stolen the identity of the movie mogul, who is worth $1.5 billion, and then moved an eight-figure-sum out of his account to purchase a $4.4 million property, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The scheme is believed to amount to one of the largest heists pulled off from inside an American prison.

Ranking only second only to that Jeffrey Epstein one.

At a previous bond hearing, federal prosecutors also said evidence suggested Cofield stole $2.25 million from an account belonging to Nicole Wertheim, the wife of Florida billionaire Herbert Wertheim, the Journal reported.

And still, less corrupt than a Congressperson who goes in middle-class and leaves a multimillionaire.