Addiction: Just put me in prison, I can’t stop being a fraudster – conman tells court

Jimmy Sabatino has reportedly spent most of his life in prison since the age of 19, all resulting from his fraud activities.

It was such a dramatic moment in court when a man described as one of Florida’s most notorious and prolific conmen asked the court before which he had appeared to put him in jail and allow no body to either visit or make phone contact with him.

Jimmy Sabatino has reportedly spent most of his life in prison since the age of 19, all resulting from his fraud activities.

The latest case for which Jimmy Sabatino has been jailed for 20 years has to do with one in which he ran a $10.4 million (USD) fraud while he was still in prison.

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According to odditycentral.com, he was serving a sentence at the Federal Detention Center in Miami for violating the terms of his supervised release, in 2014. However, he managed to arrange another fraud game with the help of a fellow inmate, George Duquen, 53, and two women, Valerie Kay Hunt, 53, and Denise Siksha Lewis, 35.

Sabitino and Duquen posed as Sony and RocNation executives and contacted luxury store managers via phone calls and emails and convinced them to lend their jewelry, watches, and other goods for music videos and other advertising purposes.

 Hunt and Lewis then sold the items in pawn shops, kept some of the money for themselves, and sent the rest to Sabatino’s prison commissary account.

A grand jury found Sabatino and his associates guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud.

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The judge gave him the maximum sentence of 20 years, but she also agreed to his unusual request to spend his sentence in solitary confinement at Supermax prison, in Colorado after he pleaded guilty.

When he appeared before a U.S. District court presided over by senior Judge, Joan Lenard and was asked if he had anything to say before his sentencing, Sabatino said “I don’t apologize to nobody.”

He added that “As far as the government is concerned, they allowed this case to happen… they should be embarrassed.”

Jimmy Sabatino has reportedly spent most of his life in prison since the age of 19, all resulting from his fraud activities. Read Full Story