Approved ~~ MJM
A Florida man accused of trying to extort a Daytona car dealer for money and a new car has been charged with multiple new felonies after allegedly posing as a federal prosecutor in an attempt at getting the charges against him dropped.
Originally, Christian Mosco, 47, was charged with trying to extort $50,000 and a car from Glenn Ritchey, owner of a branch of Jon Hall Chevrolet, a franchised car dealership. Mosco claimed he’d obtained the dealership’s 2002-2004 customer sales information in May.
If the dealership did not pay Mosco the money, he allegedly said in an email sent to the dealership, then he would “promptly publish to all local media the fact that Jon Hall Chevrolet has allowed their customers private identity information to be tossed to the curb per se. This I believe would devastate Mr. Ritchey’s future business and of course expose Mr. Ritchey to a class action lawsuit that would certainly cost him millions of dollars.”
This information was believed to include customer’s birthdates and social security numbers.
Continued…