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January 27, 2006
The fountain pen con
I swear, you can't make this stuff up:
Richard B. Roper, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, announced that . . . Mauricio Aguirre-Orcutt [had been sentenced to 57 months in prison] following his guilty plea in October to a one-count Information charging him with mail fraud. . . . Orcutt admitted that he ran an elaborate scheme, full of lies and deception, to defraud [Pen World International Magazine publisher] Glen Bowen out of thousands of dollars worth of expensive fountain pens. . .Orcutt, while corresponding with Bowen, falsely represented that he had been a special assistant and advisor to former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and had been a State Department official who helped finalize the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also represented that he was an advisor to President George W. Bush and that he’d met with President Bush earlier in the day.
To bolster the misimpression, Orcutt falsely represented to Bowen that he was meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York on September 15, 2004 and was going to “market” Pen World to the Secretary. Orcutt suggested giving Secretary Annan of Pen World a Delta 20th Anniversary fountain pen. Bowen acquired the Delta Pen and mailed it to Orcutt so that Orcutt could make the presentation to Secretary Annan as a gift from Pen World. Later, Orcutt advised Bowen that he had met with Secretary Annan and had given him the Delta Pen, which the Secretary used to sign a United Nations Resolution. A few days later, Orcutt sent Bowen an altered digital photograph of Secretary Annan that purportedly shows the Secretary signing some document with the Delta Pen. Orcutt, however, never met with Secretary Annan and kept the Delta Pen for himself.
Read the entire DOJ press release, which also relates Orcutt's con of Bowen over a pen for President Bush.
My sense is that Mr. Bowen will be receiving quite a few emails of this nature over the next several months.
Posted by Tom at January 27, 2006 06:51 AM
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"My sense is that Mr. Bowen will be receiving quite a few emails of this nature over the next several months."
It's too late. I was contacted first by a wealthy Nigerian family. They have promised me $50,000,000 by this Tuesday morning.
I guess I won't have to go to work tomorrow. Who needs a job when they will soon be rich?
Posted by: David Thomson at January 29, 2006 05:34 PM
What nobody bothered to make issue of in this case, although the prosecutor was made aware, is that Mr Aguirre is also a bigamist. Yep, still married to wife number one (although, wife number 2 has no knowledge). He also screwed former Texas Gov. Bill Clements' brother out of 70,000 in phony commissions when he worked for his publication company for 3 months. He wants to be Frank Abignail, but is really just not bright enough. Also a notoriously BAD speller. Some of his phony letters would astound you with ignorance.
Posted by: ruby embry at February 1, 2006 04:35 PM
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