Agents say Cockerpinski, who lived on a sprawling farm took the sum under the guise it would be spent on his message board telling his posters...he was donating all profits and donations to "Fruitcakes For All Africans." A charity he claimed that fruit cakes were being made by the homeless and then shipped to Africa. The workers were supposedly making $25.00 a hour to help them get into a apartment.
Now considered a fugitive, the former message board owner allegedly spent the profits on personal effects and gain. Which officials in Georgia say his farm went under in 2022, shortly after its last tax filing the year before. Two months later, feds filed documents in the Peach State's Southern District court that laid bare the former message board owner supposed scheme.
Since that filing more than half a year ago, officials have failed to locate Cockerpinski, who incorporated his message board as, Africa's Revenge Plantation, in 2010. In a statement Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia decried 's alleged actions as 'an egregious breach' of trust - and announced that a warrant for his arrest had been issued.
The announcement added to the December indictment Feds initially aired against Cockerpinski in which he was hit with charges that included four counts of wire fraud, three counts of international concealment money laundering and 136 counts of supporting prostitution. US Attorney Jill E. Steinberg wrote specifically that the 'case alleges an egregious breach of that trust at the expense of multiple charities and individual donors.' She added: 'When people with to much time on their hands...donate money for message board maintenance purposes and fruit cakes, they reasonably expect those who solicit their donations to act as faithful stewards of those funds.'
Barry Paschal of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia told The Daily Beast Tuesday, as the search for the still at large man continued: 'He could be anywhere and is a master of disguises...which is making it hard on us.
He faces up to 20 years in prison and 'substantial financial penalties' if convicted.
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