Speaker 1: Downtown Miami. It's a glistening fusion of finance, fashion and fizz.
Speaker 1: Perched on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Hundreds of
Speaker 1: opulent skyscrapers dot the coastline, gigantic glass and steel structures
Speaker 1: reaching formidably into South Florida's tropical skies. On this mid
Speaker 1: May morning, back in as the sun rises over Biscayne Bay,
Speaker 1: Downtown Miami comes alive with early birds out and about
Speaker 1: hitting up street vendors to get their morning fix on
Speaker 1: Hey leave it in in Bana. But while frenzied nine
Speaker 1: to five vers jockey for the inside lane of their
Speaker 1: personal rat race, thirty one year old Daniel Miller sits
Speaker 1: high above the chaotic bustle and is in no particular
Speaker 1: hurry to do anything. She's a voluptuous woman at five
Speaker 1: ft seven, with long, dark hair and pouty lips. She
Speaker 1: kind of looks like a Kardashian if you squint. She's
Speaker 1: recovering now from plastic surgery. In her white marbled luxury
Speaker 1: high rise, Daniel Miller screams affluence with her Rolex watch,
Speaker 1: Christian Dior digs, and Louis Vuitton handbag. She's got prescription
Speaker 1: oxycontent coursing through her veins and to private nurses on
Speaker 1: staff to help with her convalescence. Clad in tight surgical stockings,
Speaker 1: tubes draining fluid affixed to her posterior, she lumbers around
Speaker 1: her swanky Miami condo with a halting gait each step
Speaker 1: and exercise and pain tolerance. Suddenly the phone rings. It's
Speaker 1: the front desk, urging her to come down to the
Speaker 1: lobby immediately. There's an emergency. But when Danielle opens the
Speaker 1: front door to head out, a swarm of federal agents
Speaker 1: from the Partment of Homeland Security rush in, throw her
Speaker 1: up against the wall, and arrest her. Daniel Nicole Miller
Speaker 1: is accused of trying to scam the federal government out
Speaker 1: of nearly one million dollars. And that's just the tip
Speaker 1: of this con woman's iceberg. I'm Jonathan Walton and this
Speaker 1: is season three of Queen of the Con The Rich Girl,
Speaker 1: Episode one, the Brazilian Butt Lift. I remember when she
Speaker 1: called and told me about being arrested after the Brazilian
Speaker 1: butt Lift, and she was laughing about like how it
Speaker 1: was ridiculous that she had gotten in Brazilian but lived,
Speaker 1: and I was yelling at the police for like, you know,
Speaker 1: getting her butt tissue out of joint when they were
Speaker 1: handcuffing her inside. Venerated journalist Jessica Pressler, who looks kind
Speaker 1: of like a cross between Lois Lane and Taylor Swift,
Speaker 1: has become the go to expert on modern day female
Speaker 1: con artists like Danielle Miller. Well, the funny thing for
Speaker 1: me is that all of these stories are inter length
Speaker 1: for listeners who don't know. You wrote the definitive article
Speaker 1: about annadelv slash Anas a roken that got turned into
Speaker 1: that hit Netflix series Inventing Anna, where the star of
Speaker 1: it essentially is portraying you, and and the fight you
Speaker 1: had to get your story published. The character in the
Speaker 1: show is a fictionalized version of me, of highly fictionalized
Speaker 1: version of me. But yeah, and you also wrote the
Speaker 1: article that the movie Hustlers was based on, right right, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's incredible, No, it was. It was a crazy couple
Speaker 1: of years there, for sure. And it's during those crazy
Speaker 1: couple of years where Jessica Pressler meets Danielle Miller. And
Speaker 1: what do you make of daniel Miller as a as
Speaker 1: a on artists? I mean, I really don't I really
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, she is obviously a troubled person.
Speaker 1: She obviously keeps getting into trouble repeatedly. Right now, Daniel
Speaker 1: Miller is supposedly under house arrest awaiting federal trial. I
Speaker 1: say supposedly because if you follow her on Instagram, and
Speaker 1: thirty three thousand people do, you'd see her out and
Speaker 1: about in New York City, showing off her ankle monitor
Speaker 1: on the street, at restaurants, at clubs. She's become kind
Speaker 1: of a con artist influencer from the Anna Delvi school
Speaker 1: of scam and glam. I'm posting screen grabs of her
Speaker 1: frolicking while under house arrest on our Instagram page at
Speaker 1: Queen of the Con so you can see for yourself.
Speaker 1: When's the last time you talked to Daniel Miller? She
Speaker 1: texts every once in a while. So I reach out
Speaker 1: to Daniel Miller for an interview to get her side
Speaker 1: of this incredible story. And as soon as she hears
Speaker 1: she's the subject of this podcast, she blocks me on
Speaker 1: social media. Then suddenly I get an email from her
Speaker 1: entertainment attorney. Yeah, you heard right, her entertainment attorney, Like,
Speaker 1: why would she have an entertainment attorney? My buddy fellow
Speaker 1: reality TV producer Evan Goldstein, who you know by now
Speaker 1: from our first two seasons, is surprised, like what would
Speaker 1: be the point of that, Like why she's facing federal
Speaker 1: trial for scamming a million dollars from the government or
Speaker 1: trying to And so our entertainment lawyer is getting back
Speaker 1: to you. The only reason anyone ever has an entertainment
Speaker 1: attorney is to vet entertainment deals for TV shows or
Speaker 1: movies or books or whatever. In her mind, she has
Speaker 1: a profitable life. And I'm sure you know we both
Speaker 1: work in TV. There are production companies out there that
Speaker 1: want to tell her story that will also just be like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, if you'll give us the exclusive, well say
Speaker 1: whatever the funk you want, you know, just be in
Speaker 1: the chair and talk to us. I hate to sound
Speaker 1: like an old man here, but back in my day,
Speaker 1: scammers shunned publicity. They weren't out there with entertainment attorneys
Speaker 1: trying to sell their story. It's crazy. How insane is that?
Speaker 1: Where are we? I know? Where are we? Well, just
Speaker 1: speaks to everybody wants to be famous. Nowadays you can
Speaker 1: defraud people. You could do all this ship and people
Speaker 1: think She's fucking cool man, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: she wants to capitalize. So Daniel Miller's entertainment attorney emails
Speaker 1: me saying, quote, Unfortunately, Danielle is not interested in participating
Speaker 1: in your project at this time. But that's not to
Speaker 1: say she isn't talking publicly. Earlier this year, a fawning
Speaker 1: interviewer treated Danielle like a freaking celebrity, saying quote, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I am so excited that you're here right now. Welcome.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm like meeting like Gandhi. Do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And Danielle responded, quote, well, I'm
Speaker 1: not gandhie, but but she is something. Daniel Miller Rick
Speaker 1: gales with her harrowing experience of getting arrested by federal
Speaker 1: agents post Brazilian butt lift surgery, or BBL, as the
Speaker 1: interviewer refers to it. I had just gotten my body
Speaker 1: done in Miami two weeks prior to getting arrested by
Speaker 1: the Feds. You gotta b b L. And the fucking
Speaker 1: Feds arrested you in your garment like post b b L,
Speaker 1: like threw you against a wall. Oh my god, oh
Speaker 1: my god. And they knew that's the crazy part. They
Speaker 1: knew about it. Of course they knew about it. They've
Speaker 1: been surveiling her for months. According to court records, the
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars she was living the high
Speaker 1: life on in Miami was allegedly stolen from the federal government,
Speaker 1: including the twenty granders so that she spent on her
Speaker 1: Brazilian butt lift. What's a Brazilian butt lift? Is that
Speaker 1: like a Brazilian wax? My buddy Evan is as in
Speaker 1: the dark about all this stuff as I was, And
Speaker 1: they what, They just lift your saggy but like up higher.
Speaker 1: I thought so too, but no, I did some research.
Speaker 1: So a Brazilian butt lift. It's named after the doctor
Speaker 1: who was Brazilian who invented it. It's a plastic doctor
Speaker 1: butt lift. No, but he was Brazilian. They suck fat
Speaker 1: out from an undesirable part of your body where you
Speaker 1: don't want fat, and they stick it in your butt
Speaker 1: where you want to make a bigger bot. So but donkey,
Speaker 1: donk like surgery so you could start hitting the towrque market.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Well, big bluts are like all the rage,
Speaker 1: you know, like big butts are huge. Now big, big
Speaker 1: butts technically have always been huge. Yeah, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: imagine it'd be like smooth, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you get the butt dimples. Well, I think they
Speaker 1: put like and that's what she was wearing, like surgical
Speaker 1: stockings to like make it heal smooth. I guess it
Speaker 1: depends on you know, like how much, what kind of
Speaker 1: doctor you can get, and how good they are. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was actually popularized by the Kardashians. It's procedure where
Speaker 1: they essentially take fat from your stomach and waste area
Speaker 1: and they put it in your butt. Journalist Sophie Ross
Speaker 1: covers influencer culture and hosts a podcast called So True
Speaker 1: with Sophie Ross. Aside from the Kardashians, I think it's
Speaker 1: important to point out that Kendall Jenner has one. She
Speaker 1: doesn't have the very exaggerated one. You can get a
Speaker 1: very you know, subtle one. Chris Jenner has definitely had
Speaker 1: one Nicki Minaj. So it's like a big butt and
Speaker 1: a tiny waist, yes, yes, exactly. But again it's like
Speaker 1: you can get the Kendall Jenner version, which is like
Speaker 1: you get like a baby BBL So it's just like
Speaker 1: a little bit of curve. But again, like you're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to get those curbs naturally, but
Speaker 1: they look more natural than you know, the super exaggerated
Speaker 1: Kylie Jenner, Chloe, Kim Kardashian. But they're definitely way more
Speaker 1: celebrities than like I can think of off the top
Speaker 1: of my head. There's one that has a very big
Speaker 1: fan base, So I'm not even going to bring her up.
Speaker 1: Oh like and and her fans attack if you accuse
Speaker 1: her of having a b b L. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: just not even gonna gonna say it. But more than
Speaker 1: you can possibly realize, because again, it's like these celebrities
Speaker 1: have access to the best plastic surgeons and Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: and they're not going to Tijuana, which can be very
Speaker 1: dangerous when a lot of these women who are trying
Speaker 1: to replicate that Kardashian body go to sketchy doctors or
Speaker 1: go to Tijuana, and it's a very dangerous procedure. That's
Speaker 1: another thing to point out is that a b b
Speaker 1: L is one of the most dangerous elective procedures that
Speaker 1: you can have, So keep that in mind. And for
Speaker 1: the record, I should say that Kim Kardashian adamantly denies
Speaker 1: ever getting a b b L and even X rayed
Speaker 1: her own butt on her E show to prove it.
Speaker 1: And we all know that X rays are famous for
Speaker 1: showing fat right, but Kim Kardashian denies to this day
Speaker 1: that she got a b b L, which is areas like,
Speaker 1: how stupid do you think we are? Anyway? The question
Speaker 1: burning in my mind now is how the hell did
Speaker 1: Danielle Miller, who comes from a wealthy New York family
Speaker 1: and has a privileged upbringing wind up in a downtown
Speaker 1: Miami high rise pinned to the wall by federal agents
Speaker 1: handcuffing her while recovering from a BBL And that crazy
Speaker 1: arrest is one of many over the years. Daniel Miller
Speaker 1: has a rap sheet longer than a CVS receipt, spanning
Speaker 1: five states and hundreds of victims, and I talked to
Speaker 1: a bunch of them for this podcast. It's truly an
Speaker 1: unbelievable story, and it starts where most unbelievable stories start,
Speaker 1: on the Internet. Just about everybody's identity is floating around
Speaker 1: the Internet somewhere. Scott ten Lee was a federal pro
Speaker 1: secutor with the Department of justice, whether it's the dark Web,
Speaker 1: whether it's across the country, across the world. In China,
Speaker 1: we are giving so much data about ourselves to every website,
Speaker 1: to every bank, everywhere, and it's not always maintained in
Speaker 1: a safe and secure way. And when you hear about
Speaker 1: these data breaches, that's millions of people who now are
Speaker 1: exposed to being victims of crimes. You may remember Scott
Speaker 1: from our last season. He's the guy who prosecuted Lizzie Mulder,
Speaker 1: the o C Savior, And in his seven and a
Speaker 1: half years at the Justice Department, he's seen every kind
Speaker 1: of con under the sun. Dozens and dozens, if not
Speaker 1: hundreds of fraud cases would come across my desk. They
Speaker 1: are everywhere. At six ft three, he's a dashing Clark
Speaker 1: Kent type prosecuting con cases in federal court, hell bent
Speaker 1: on taking scammers down. I was very passionate about my job.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's why I love being a prosecutor,
Speaker 1: because you're out there helping victims of crime, right and
Speaker 1: and it's like, wow, I've identified with all this evidence
Speaker 1: who has done this us. You know, how am I
Speaker 1: going to get this across the finish line? Which is
Speaker 1: the right and just result these days, though Scott Tinley
Speaker 1: is working in the private sector. I'm a partner in
Speaker 1: the white collar defense and government investigations practice at Michaelman
Speaker 1: and Robinson in Irvine, California. Now do do cases all
Speaker 1: over the country. I do have law license, will travel.
Speaker 1: Because the federal case against Daniel Miller is open and ongoing.
Speaker 1: The Department of Justice won't talk to me about it,
Speaker 1: but their former prosecutor, Scott Tinley will. He hasn't worked
Speaker 1: the case, but he's reviewed some of the court records
Speaker 1: and drawing from his vast experience bringing the Daniel Miller's
Speaker 1: of the world to justice, he has some valuable insight.
Speaker 1: So it's a wire fraud case. Wire fraud is a
Speaker 1: very broad statute that allows the federal government to charge
Speaker 1: any scheme to defraud provided you use an interstate wire
Speaker 1: or use the mail. And today almost everything happens with
Speaker 1: an interstate wire. Email, els, bank deposits, wire transfers, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a wire, so effectively, it's this very broad
Speaker 1: tool that the federal government can use to prosecute anybody
Speaker 1: engaged in a scheme to steal money from a victim.
Speaker 1: In short, what the government is alleging, according to court records,
Speaker 1: is that Daniel Miller stole a bunch of identities and
Speaker 1: accessed various Department of Motor Vehicle websites to get victims
Speaker 1: driver's licenses mailed to her, and then used those drivers
Speaker 1: licenses to open bank accounts and apply for more than
Speaker 1: nine hundred thousand dollars in COVID relief money. If you recall,
Speaker 1: at the height of the pandemic, most people were in
Speaker 1: lockdown at home and out of work. The federal government
Speaker 1: dispersed trillions of dollars in COVID relief and scammers like
Speaker 1: Daniel Miller pounced hard and fast. She did manage to
Speaker 1: get more than two hundred thousand dollars in loans, but
Speaker 1: she tried to get almost a million before they after.
Speaker 1: So she was getting away with us again and again
Speaker 1: in the game. They confiscated six from her. Can they
Speaker 1: do that? So the indictment does not need to allege
Speaker 1: every fraudulent loan they think that she's involved with. They
Speaker 1: do need to have some factual basis to think that
Speaker 1: whatever they seize is proceeds of criminal activity, right, So,
Speaker 1: for instance, if she set up the bank account only
Speaker 1: for the fraud and there's no legitimate money going in.
Speaker 1: That could be a basis to say, hey, everything in
Speaker 1: this account we need to seize and we'll get it
Speaker 1: sorted out later. There's also these aggravated identity theft charges
Speaker 1: in here that I don't know if you saw. So
Speaker 1: those are charges that have a unique sentence to them.
Speaker 1: It is a mandatory minimum two years consecutive to whatever
Speaker 1: you get on something on the underlying fraud, right, which
Speaker 1: suggests she's not going to walk away from this without
Speaker 1: doing at least some jail time. But hearing Danielle's version
Speaker 1: of events based on her public statements, the the just
Speaker 1: don't have a thing on her. An interviewer asks her, quote,
Speaker 1: when the fetes came to your Miami apartment when you
Speaker 1: were all bandaged up from your BBL, they seized a
Speaker 1: lot of incriminating things from that apartment, such as a
Speaker 1: lot of cash, money orders, a bunch of fake I
Speaker 1: d s. And Danielle responds, like, what is a lot
Speaker 1: of cash? Though? So also like cash and money orders,
Speaker 1: those are completely legal things. So I don't know why
Speaker 1: they like they were just seized, like because that's what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do. I'm not I can't really talk
Speaker 1: about it. It's an open case, like they apparently were
Speaker 1: there for like twelve hours. It's two bedroom apartment. You're
Speaker 1: in my apartment for twelve hours, Like I don't even
Speaker 1: know what, Like I don't even know. I still don't
Speaker 1: know to this day. Like I just know that they
Speaker 1: took like my Chanelle bags and my berkin and like
Speaker 1: a suitcase, and like I don't know what was taken.
Speaker 1: So what are these fake ideas? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people that own production companies and
Speaker 1: produced music videos in l A. And none of them
Speaker 1: can afford a birkin in a Rolls Rise and like
Speaker 1: half the thing as they also have rich boyfriends. Right right,
Speaker 1: listening to her speak, you might find it hard to
Speaker 1: believe this woman is a criminal mastermind. I assure you though,
Speaker 1: it's a wolf in Sheep's clothing situation. Because the fifteen
Speaker 1: page affidavit alleging Daniel Miller's very complicated and very detailed
Speaker 1: scam is quite damning. I'm posting a copy of it
Speaker 1: on our Instagram page at Queen of the con But
Speaker 1: the entire federal case on Danielle Miller is a stack
Speaker 1: of papers hundreds of pages deep. It's thick. So I've
Speaker 1: been told my buddy, Evan Goldstein, and I are sifting
Speaker 1: through all the court records now in the United States
Speaker 1: versus Danielle Miller case. My dining room table looks like
Speaker 1: a scene from Hoarders. Evan picks up one stack of
Speaker 1: papers titled Affidavit of Special Agent and support of criminal
Speaker 1: complaint and begins reading. In January, any one, h SI
Speaker 1: special agents began investigating a scheme where an individual access
Speaker 1: numerous my rm V accounts within the Massachusetts Registry of
Speaker 1: Motor Vehicles. That's the d m V in Massachusetts. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where she hit to take over people's identities. So
Speaker 1: she used DMB records. She went in there and changed
Speaker 1: the address and had them send someone else's license to her,
Speaker 1: and then she put her photo over the license. So
Speaker 1: that's how she had fake I d S. Yes, this
Speaker 1: was her specialty. According to authorities and people I've interviewed
Speaker 1: working on the case, access to the system requires a
Speaker 1: user to enter certain identifiers such as name, date of birth,
Speaker 1: social Security number. Rm V records revealed that my rm
Speaker 1: V accounts associated with twenty seven different individuals were accessed
Speaker 1: from one I P address between August one August five.
Speaker 1: These are seven people, twenty seven people in four days.
Speaker 1: She was just getting started. T D Bank records reveal
Speaker 1: that account number x x x x x ten ten
Speaker 1: was opened under the name l M S. LMS has
Speaker 1: reported that she did not open this account. T D
Speaker 1: Bank records reflect the deposit of one hundred two thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars from s B A to the t
Speaker 1: D Bank account x x x x x ten ten
Speaker 1: on August six, two thou twenty. So that's the loan
Speaker 1: that came through one of them that Daniel Miller allegedly
Speaker 1: tricked the federal government into giving her a hundred and
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. She gets deposited into this victim's bank
Speaker 1: account that she opened in the name of the victim,
Speaker 1: and the victim has no idea, has no idea. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's crazy, man, Like it's just crazy that you could
Speaker 1: get into like you could just do this by accessing
Speaker 1: d MV records. That's kind of scary. We're all out,
Speaker 1: like how the hell did she even get in there
Speaker 1: in the first place, Like just like cracked your password
Speaker 1: or something because no, So this is a whole other thing. Telegram.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of Telegram? So Telegram is this like
Speaker 1: social media platform, kind of like What's app. It's encrypted messaging.
Speaker 1: You download the app and you can start a group.
Speaker 1: And Telegram is used by a lot of criminals to
Speaker 1: share stolen information. So whenever you read about one of
Speaker 1: those gigantic data breaches from Google or from this bank
Speaker 1: or from that bank, cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase
Speaker 1: and a data breach at TD Bank, make your personal information,
Speaker 1: including social security numbers, may have been stolen in them.
Speaker 1: The people who stole that info sell it on Telegram,
Speaker 1: And according to investigators that I've spoken to, Daniel Miller
Speaker 1: was using Telegram to join these groups by this information,
Speaker 1: using a currency and then impersonating these people, you know,
Speaker 1: for the information she bought. She impersonates them. So that's
Speaker 1: how she found that victim LMS. She found her on
Speaker 1: Telegram and had all her info, her birth date, her address,
Speaker 1: her social so she could open a bank account in
Speaker 1: her name, apply for an sp loan in her name,
Speaker 1: and get that hundred and two thousand dollars. Yeah, that's scary.
Speaker 1: No one is safe, Every bank, every Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, whatever,
Speaker 1: they get breached all the time. You hear it on
Speaker 1: the news, twenty million addresses were breached. Whatever. That that's
Speaker 1: our info. Ry Now, I accidentally clicked a bogus link
Speaker 1: and it scares the ship out of me. After talking
Speaker 1: to you all the time, you're like, you're fucked. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you should change all your passwords. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: or just kill yourself. Well, you know one of the two.
Speaker 1: It's like that Eddie is or a joke. It's like
Speaker 1: cake or death. Well, I choose cake, Jonathan, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: obviously choose cake too. I gotta run out of kake
Speaker 1: at this right, but not all of Daniel Miller's alleged
Speaker 1: attempts to steal people's identities and apply for COVID money
Speaker 1: work out. According to court records, The individual then made
Speaker 1: several unsuccessful attempts to request a duplicate license. The individual
Speaker 1: also attempted an address change, but was unsuccessful. See that's
Speaker 1: the scheme. So she gets her info, goes into the
Speaker 1: d m V online, requests a duplicate license, and then
Speaker 1: tries to change the address. So when she gets to license,
Speaker 1: the address matches her own. Right, that she's using for
Speaker 1: the scam. The account listed to Southwest Street Apartment, Miami,
Speaker 1: Florida for the address and three seven one as the
Speaker 1: phone number, and that's one of the addresses she was
Speaker 1: staying at in Miami, right, So she's just trying to
Speaker 1: use this woman's identity and change your information so it
Speaker 1: links up with her current address. But it's still under
Speaker 1: the victim's name, which is bold but stupid because why
Speaker 1: link it to a place your physically at. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess she had no fear. I guess she thought
Speaker 1: she was above the law. She'd gotten away so far. Like,
Speaker 1: it's just crazy to me. Even if I wanted to
Speaker 1: steal people's identities, I'm not linking it to my address
Speaker 1: where I'm at. I'm gonna find like a p O
Speaker 1: box or or some fall guys address, right. I don't know.
Speaker 1: One thing though, that differentiates Daniel Miller from a lot
Speaker 1: of other con artists, at least in this instance, is
Speaker 1: she doesn't actually know any of her victims here. She
Speaker 1: never meets them. She only knows their social Security numbers
Speaker 1: and dates of birth and other really personal private details.
Speaker 1: As noted above, this scheme has involved the use of
Speaker 1: p I I of k E, who is a resident
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. Now we're into the Wisconsin victim. So the
Speaker 1: other victim was Massachusetts. This victim is Wisconsin. And this
Speaker 1: is just more proof that this is a data breach
Speaker 1: that she bought using crypto on telegram. And now she's
Speaker 1: just randomly using whoever is information to get driver's licenses
Speaker 1: and ideas at random. Just whoever it's information she shows
Speaker 1: up in the breach and it so now we're in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin was Canson. According to court records, Daniel Miller steals
Speaker 1: the identity from a random woman in Wisconsin, gets a
Speaker 1: driver's license in her name, and rents a zip car
Speaker 1: in Miami using that same woman's driver's license and credit card.
Speaker 1: Zip Car explained the applicant was required to upload the
Speaker 1: front and back of a driver's license, as well as
Speaker 1: a selfie of themselves. And here's the funny thing. Daniel
Speaker 1: Miller is five ft seven and has brown hair. The
Speaker 1: woman who's driver's license she steals known as k E.
Speaker 1: According to the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System, Kae is
Speaker 1: five three and has blonde, brown hair and blue eyes. Ah,
Speaker 1: so it's not so Kae is not the one in
Speaker 1: her license that Daniel Miller got. She put her own
Speaker 1: picture on her license and she took her selfie so
Speaker 1: the pictures match, and she got the zipcarmer. God, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of work. I mean, it's exhausting reading what
Speaker 1: she did. Can you imagine doing it. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of legwork. Yeah, but it's insanely profitable. According to court records,
Speaker 1: Daniel Miller also allegedly swipes another one and twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in COVID cash using the identification of a
Speaker 1: victim in Arizona, referred to you as a s in
Speaker 1: the affidavit. But at the end of the day, what
Speaker 1: people fail to recognize is that there are people with
Speaker 1: real lives that are losing money. You know, that affects
Speaker 1: them deeply. It's easy to see that because she's not
Speaker 1: personally meeting them, so maybe she feels a disconnect that
Speaker 1: these are just numbers and ones and zeros. It's and
Speaker 1: they're not really people, but they are people. We are
Speaker 1: all ones and zeros. It just sucks. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: you wake up one day, you're just going about your
Speaker 1: life and you find out someone stole your identity. Someone
Speaker 1: is doing all this ship under your name with your
Speaker 1: fucking driver's license. It's gotta be fucking infuriating and worse
Speaker 1: than that, if you're trying to buy a home or
Speaker 1: you're trying to buy a car and it comes up
Speaker 1: that all this money you owe someone took out credit
Speaker 1: in your name and charged up a storm. What are
Speaker 1: you get? You're screwed. You're gonna get into the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, the identity even right, you know, bus
Speaker 1: is on the victim to prove their case. It takes
Speaker 1: years to get out from under that. Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, oh, your high risk, you did all this
Speaker 1: ship and did it, and then you gotta go through
Speaker 1: like this whole fucking song and dance about, oh there's
Speaker 1: this person that you know essentially defrauded me, and now God,
Speaker 1: I would just be so fucking piste off. As for
Speaker 1: the rest of that affidavit, it turns out the special
Speaker 1: agent investigating Daniel Miller is also one of her Instagram followers,
Speaker 1: because they write I am familiar with an Instagram post
Speaker 1: dated September by user kill ade Milla that includes a
Speaker 1: photograph of a woman wearing a blue outfit standing in
Speaker 1: front of a white Rolls Royce. Behind her, the words
Speaker 1: the Beverly Hills can be seen written on a pink
Speaker 1: peach building. The photograph appears to have been taken in
Speaker 1: the valet area of the Beverly Hills Hotel, located in
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, California. I believe the woman depicted in this
Speaker 1: photograph is the same individual depicted on the fraudulent LMS
Speaker 1: Massachusetts driver's license on file with Exo Global in the
Speaker 1: fraudulent KAE, Wisconsin driver's license on file with zip Carr
Speaker 1: bam So her Instagram is is shackling her. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like you need that fucking attention. Yeah, yeah, it is
Speaker 1: one attention. You know. I only post tasteful nudes on
Speaker 1: my Instagram, Like, I don't show anything lavish. I just
Speaker 1: pair it all down. Interestingly enough, after Daniel Miller is
Speaker 1: allegedly successful in obtaining all that COVID cash under other
Speaker 1: people's names and bank accounts, her next stop is the
Speaker 1: Corner grocery store. TD Bank records revealed numerous transactions from
Speaker 1: Public supermarket in Miami, Florida, between August eleven, two thousand twenty,
Speaker 1: and September eight. Public records revealed that the items purchased
Speaker 1: were Western Union money orders totally approximately two eight hundred
Speaker 1: sixty two dollars. Wow, well, that's more proof that she's
Speaker 1: a scammer. This is the currency of scammers, money orders,
Speaker 1: any one of those email scams or phone scams where
Speaker 1: they try to trick you that they're calling from the
Speaker 1: I R. S or calling from the bank, or your
Speaker 1: grandson has been arrested. Send money. They want a money
Speaker 1: order because it's untraceable, and because it's like cash. You
Speaker 1: give a scammer a money order, they deposited, it's done.
Speaker 1: A money order is cash, you know, it's like a
Speaker 1: cashier's check. So this is more evidence that she went
Speaker 1: and purchased dollars in money orders for what Who does that?
Speaker 1: Who does that? Only a scammer. The majority of the
Speaker 1: money orders were made out to K. E. Gem and Jewels.
Speaker 1: That's a jewelry store, So she's buying jewelry. So she's
Speaker 1: getting the money in SB loans right, and this is
Speaker 1: like money laundering because she's using it to buy money
Speaker 1: orders and then using those money orders to buy jewelry
Speaker 1: and just make it out through the jewelry. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then she's posting selfies on Instagram of her in the jewelry,
Speaker 1: like bragging about her high dollar lifestyle. Man, the hundreds
Speaker 1: of meticulous details listed in that AFFI davit are staggering
Speaker 1: home addresses, phone numbers, I P addresses, account numbers, pictures
Speaker 1: from a t M machines, exact times of day and dates,
Speaker 1: exact locations, and do you think those could be wrong?
Speaker 1: Before a federal agent is going to sign a document
Speaker 1: under oath, they have triple checked it to make sure
Speaker 1: it's accurate, that it's not misleading, that they have all
Speaker 1: their facts correct, because they know there could come a
Speaker 1: day when they're sitting in court under oath, cross examined
Speaker 1: in front of a jury about their inaccurate statement, and
Speaker 1: that could blow the whole case. So the last thing
Speaker 1: you want to do is make a mistake by being
Speaker 1: sloppy or inaccurate when you're putting these things together. Oftentimes,
Speaker 1: when you write a criminal comp lane, you know the
Speaker 1: defendant is going to read it, and you want the
Speaker 1: defendant to think, oh shit, they found my IP address,
Speaker 1: Oh shit, they have me on camera doing X, Y
Speaker 1: and Z. Maybe that causes the case to get resolved
Speaker 1: more quickly, Right, You don't have to just turn over
Speaker 1: a million documents. Yeah, I never thought of that. That's
Speaker 1: a good point. So those details probably scared the crap
Speaker 1: out of her. Oh I do that all the time,
Speaker 1: all the time. It's like, let me tell you how
Speaker 1: funk you are. That's how we would draft criminal complaints
Speaker 1: a lot of times. But again, hearing Danielle blithely spin
Speaker 1: and explain things away, you gotta wonder what the hell
Speaker 1: is really going through her mind. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: tons of court records and news reports about her many
Speaker 1: criminal exploits all over the country, and yet she publicly
Speaker 1: stated in an interview that everyone's got it wrong, saying, quote,
Speaker 1: so like the story was like spun from like all
Speaker 1: different court documents of stuff, right, and like made to
Speaker 1: be like I'm some huge froster when like really at heart,
Speaker 1: like I'm a researcher and like things are interesting to
Speaker 1: me and I like get really in depth of like
Speaker 1: certain topics. So like that's why I know just so
Speaker 1: much about so many different things. That's just like scamming, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's crazy. The scamming world is insane. There
Speaker 1: it's a seven billion dollar industry from life block to
Speaker 1: people that are scamming, like I don't understand where the
Speaker 1: money is coming and where the money is going. So
Speaker 1: she's just a researcher. Sounds like she did nothing wrong, right, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm following the federal case now, I'll let you know
Speaker 1: what happens, So stay tuned. But the sophistication of Daniel
Speaker 1: Miller's many scams across the United States is almost unfathomable,
Speaker 1: given that she pulled most of them off in her twenties.
Speaker 1: Over the next nine episodes will unpack each one of
Speaker 1: those crazy cons in exquisite detail. Though there are some
Speaker 1: who point to a life altering mistake you know Miller
Speaker 1: makes as a young girl as ground zero for the
Speaker 1: birth of a con artist. I was thirteen when I
Speaker 1: made the videos at the time. Are you a Virgin?
Speaker 1: Coming up this season on Queen of the Con The
Speaker 1: Rich Girl. When I was thirteen years old, I went
Speaker 1: through a traumatic experience as a victim of child pornography
Speaker 1: that scarred me for the rest of my life, and
Speaker 1: it led me down a path of regrettable decisions. Dude,
Speaker 1: this girls are like a walking con artist, Like, do
Speaker 1: not trust this woman. She did so much wrong and
Speaker 1: she screwed so many people over, Like, what about the
Speaker 1: people that are hurting from all of this? We found
Speaker 1: about in the car, along with other fake ideas as well.
Speaker 1: But she was saying something about the probation or mind
Speaker 1: and she was like, yeah, that's all this is gonna
Speaker 1: amount to you, Like, bring it on. She's a chameleon, Alice,
Speaker 1: whoever you wanted him at first, you just try to
Speaker 1: be the victim. No matter what I would ask her,
Speaker 1: she'd have answer board, phone numbers, is addresses, social you
Speaker 1: name it. She had it all in her head and
Speaker 1: I'll never forget she did it in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. She woke me up before I had to
Speaker 1: go to work, and she was like, here's the check,
Speaker 1: Like sign it here, retty to take care of that.
Speaker 1: It sounds like there are hundreds of victims, hundreds of
Speaker 1: people she's ripped off. Yes. Wow. She got into my accounts,
Speaker 1: changed my emails to a different email, changed my address
Speaker 1: to her address, sent herself a credit card and debit card,
Speaker 1: opened up merchant banking your accounts, a cash app of Venmo,
Speaker 1: applied for Charles Swab. They were waiting for her whole
Speaker 1: side of the store, so they came in exactly at
Speaker 1: the time where she was going through checob and then
Speaker 1: she was like she froze. She literally stand there and
Speaker 1: she's completely frozen. And then the detective said, I need
Speaker 1: your a d it's very intoxic. And I was already
Speaker 1: asleep and probably like the room was probably spending and
Speaker 1: I woke up and Danielle was standing thing over me.
Speaker 1: She has dangerous there's no impulse control. She said, you know,
Speaker 1: if we just get married, I'll be able to get
Speaker 1: so many millions. And she's like, then we could just
Speaker 1: like split it up, and I was like, I would
Speaker 1: never not for like that is an actual con. I'm
Speaker 1: getting the oppression she was in love with you. Yes,
Speaker 1: it got pretty awkward. In my head. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just paid for this girl's vacation for her birthday. Probably
Speaker 1: like she's just been taking all the cash for me.
Speaker 1: This person is more dangerous with a cell phone than
Speaker 1: anybody I know with a firearm. So she's using a
Speaker 1: stolen credit card on your Uber account and then used
Speaker 1: you to book rides for her. Yeah, to this day,
Speaker 1: I am banned from Uber and I can no longer
Speaker 1: use it because I got called by a tesla dealership
Speaker 1: in Detroit. Did she try to buy a Tesla in
Speaker 1: your name? Yes, I just want to say I'm truly
Speaker 1: sorry for what I did end. I apologize and I
Speaker 1: would never let this happen ever, ever, ever, again. Why
Speaker 1: does Danielle Miller continue to do as she does and
Speaker 1: continue to do it successfully? It's because humans are reward driven.
Speaker 1: We do what gets us results. She does this because
Speaker 1: it fades, it pays big. I mean, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, karma is a bitch, and I hope
Speaker 1: that it comes and invites her in the ass. A
Speaker 1: portion of an email in this episode from daniel Miller's
Speaker 1: entertainment attorney was dramatized verbatim as we're all of Danielle's
Speaker 1: public statements and her interviewers questions and comments. If you're
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Speaker 1: Voice acting by Brian Clovis, Milan Faxis, Jorge Farragut, and
Speaker 1: Melina Krawlski. Court records, police records, the Department of Justice,
Speaker 1: Homeland Security, victim interviews, interviews with investigators, The New York Post,
Speaker 1: New York Magazine, and Spotify's Forbidden Fruits were the sources
Speaker 1: used for this season of Queen of the Card