WEBVTT - You Robbed A Billionaire From Inside A Prison? 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.800 Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Yo, 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:08.440 Elizabeth Dutton, Zarain Burnett. What is up girl? Oh? Nothing? 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.520 Just you know? Do you gotta second? I got a 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.080 quick question? Go ahead. Do you know what's ridiculous? We do? 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.639 I do? Share it with a brother. Now. You know. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:21.680 Normally I'm all about the food mashups. Not today, thank god? 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:30.240 Today is it my birthday? No? Today I'm doing clothing mashups. Hey, Okay, 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:35.599 so you know that I love the Adidas. Yes, yes, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.000 I do know. I own far too many pairs of 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:45.640 the Adidas um soda you dream about shoes? I do. Uh, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.559 this is disappointing for me. Well because I usually like 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:54.000 pretty much anything Adidas puts out. But then they kind 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.240 of missed the mark on something worse than some of 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.880 the Jeremy Scott stuff. Yeah. Damn. Um. They have a 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.959 crossover with the Simpsons, and you'd think that it would 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.759 be all Bart Simpson like radical dude, cowabunga man, eat 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.480 my shorts. No, it's um Adidas and the Simpsons shoes 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:20.840 for International left handers Day. It's um ned Flanders Adidas 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:26.959 and let me give you the sea let me descriptions, 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.280 uh left handers rule exclamation point. These mccarton shoes pay 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.559 homage to a classic and timeless Adida's trainer and honor 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:42.399 our favorite left hander in Springfield, Ned Flanders. The packaging 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.479 and poster called back to the Left Orium. They're made 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.760 from smooth leather with a rubber outsol. They're ugliest, sin 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.320 like no, and like they all you know, I'm intentionally 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.720 supposed to be like bad, like you're supposed to look 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:01.040 like ned Flanders shoes and they do so. But you 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.880 know how like they always show they have the pictures 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.640 right on the website and it's only showing the right shoe, 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:11.000 right right. It's supposed to be for left hand, left foots, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.720 multiple foots. Oh boy, this is melting my brain. So anyway, 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:22.280 I find this ridiculous and I concur okay, ridiculous. Well, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.799 if you got a second, I got one for you. Yeah, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.440 I'm sure it's better. No, no, no, this one is 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.560 is is strange, it's ridiculous, and it's criminal. I know, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.040 I think you would like it. Once upon a time, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.760 a Georgia inmate in state custody, he smuggled in a 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.200 contraband phone, which people do, and he gets it into 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.480 prison and he uses this phone to impersonate a billionaire. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.160 But that's not all, Elizabeth. He also purchased six thousand 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.560 gold coins that were worth about eleven million dollars and 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.480 he did this with the billionaire's investment account. That's not all, Elizabeth. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.600 I am not done yet. Next, he bottoms off a 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.840 multimillion dollar house with a billionaire's money on this phone. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:22.280 He's still in prison. Wow, this is ridiculous. Crime of 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.200 a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heist and cons. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:35.800 It's all murder free and ridiculous, Elizabeth, this story I'm 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.040 about to tell you. To be clear, I just wanted 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.640 you to know this from the get There are no 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.880 heroes in this story. There aren't even anti heroes in 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.720 this story. Yeah. For the record, I do not like 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.560 this inmate. He's not one of my dudes. Also, I'm 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.120 not rooting for the billionaire in this story. Surprised but 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.480 I know. But I promise you this is one hell 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.920 of a story. So buckle up, Buttercup. Before we dig 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.360 into this first story, though, I kind of wanted to 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.120 whet your appetite. I had an appetizer at a moose bush. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.520 As you like to call them. Yes, so the headline 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.960 read a starter billionaire spends thirty five million to investigate 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.560 four hundred thousand dollar wine fraud. Wine fraud. Yes, spends 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:22.160 thirty five million to investigate four hundred dollar loss. Essentially. Now, Elizabeth, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.480 you may be thinking, Sarah, I'm not the best at math, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.760 but that sounds like a waste of money. It does. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.360 You are right, Elizabeth, that is a percent of waste 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.359 of money. But all depends on what you're buying, and 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.479 in this case, he was buying I think peace of mind. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.640 Wait a second, which one is? What's who is it? Yeah? 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.680 So the billionaire in question, I'm glad you asked, is 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.400 a member of the Coke family. Yes, I've seen this documentary. Yes, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.160 Bill Coke Sary's brother of Charles and David Coke. So 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.039 so now this guy, he's not the failed son, the 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.840 one who makes those ugly shirts. That guy is Wyatt Coke. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.880 He's the founder of Wyatt Ingraham, which is the shirt company. Um. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.680 One story I found said is a fashion line. That 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.440 quote answers the question what if Tommy Baham his dad 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.400 had paid for him to go to Harvard are trying 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.240 to get into Harvard, I should get the quote, right. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:10.080 So not that Coke brother, Paper Coke, which one's a 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.800 toilet picker, don't they have like the family, Yeah yeah, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.040 yeah yeah, the family is big into papers. So this 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.960 Coke brother, the Bill Coke, he he owns these bottles 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.800 of wine, right, He's got these four bottles of wine 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.440 that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. If you've seen the documentary, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.080 you know this. He spends four dollars to get them. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.200 Come to find out they are not Thomas Jefferson wine, 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:36.400 just normal wine put into expensive labels. That's all up 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.880 in there, exactly a little boxed wine for the brothers. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.039 So Bill Coke he gets all piste right, and he's 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.680 like discovers his figure. He's like what what this is outrageous? Right, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.520 So he's like, I'm an idiot. I'm going to spend 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.280 a lot of money to good peace of mind. So 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.320 he hires a private investigator to check out the provenance 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.240 of all of his wine collection. Right, So he discovers 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.560 he's been do numerous times. A billionaire gets embarrassed. He 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.039 gets mad, so he pays this private dick to check 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.520 all every single bottle he owns his entire collection, So 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.560 a little bit. How many bottles do you think, dude have? 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.880 He had four hundred, four hundred fake bottles of wine. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.840 I have vague memories of them, Like I said, I 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.960 saw the documentary, but I don't remember the Oh wow, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.000 this quote, maybe you know, bring some bells for you, 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.720 Bill Coke said, and I quote there is a code 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.720 of silence in this business because obviously the faker doesn't 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.440 want anybody to know that he's making fake wine. The 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.800 auction house doesn't want to know that, and then the 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.200 collector himself generally doesn't want to know that, or if 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.240 he finds out, he wants to find a secret way 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.560 to dump it and get his money back because he's 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.440 a He's like, I'm going to drink any of this stuff, right? 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.159 Oh No, sometimes they do. I mean some collectors do, 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.039 most of the time. Not they will exhibit it to 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.720 other wine collectors, like look at my Thomas Jefferson bottles. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.520 They will never get open. Right. So this cat he decides, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.400 I'm going to break the wheel. So he goes and 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.520 he gets his private investigator, as I told you, looking 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.159 at all his fraudulent bottles. The dude tracks down the 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.679 guy who sold him the bottles of Thomas Jefferson fake wine, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.320 right that guy loves in Germany. Bill Coke sues him. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.599 He wins a one million dollar like just a judgment 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.760 from him right now. Any lawyer will tell you this. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.320 Your mother's a lawyer, she'll tell you this. He's not 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.880 going to see that money. Yeah, that's just not happening. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.480 So he's like, Nope, it doesn't matter. I'm rich already. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.160 I'm not doing it for the money. I want peace 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.520 of mind. So he starts going again. He pays lawyers 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.000 to go after people. He's suing everyone he can, and 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.840 like some Cape crusader, he decides he's going to protect 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.960 all the other dumb, ultra rich people like him. And 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.920 he's like, I gotta protect us, so his private investigator 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.200 keeps working. The private dick finds that the bulk of 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.760 the fraudulent wine that he has purchased all came from 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.240 the same con man in Los Angeles. And this is 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.200 the guy who would take literally Fronsia common just wine 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.160 poured into expensive bottles and selitude foolish ultra wealthy people 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.080 this wine labeled conment. He gets tried, convicted, and sentence 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.560 So Bill Coke once again gets his some more justice. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.200 But he's not done, Elizabeth. Bill Coke is on it. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.880 He gets on his batman cow and he goes to 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.560 after the auction house. The auction house is like, oh man, 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.000 sorry about selling you the fig timas Jefferson Wine. He's 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.800 like all right, and they're like, oh yeah, here's read. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.640 This is called the statute of limitations. Now blow. So 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.400 the auction house is in the clear because statue limitations 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.920 are up. Dudes, not done though, He's like, who else 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.520 can I go after? So Bill Coke says, and I quote, 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.440 I spent over thirty five million doing all that. I 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.640 was a dog on a bone. I wasn't going to 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.800 give up. Remember this, he's doing this to protect rich idiots. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.560 And he said, yeah, he's spent four thousand. He's out there, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:36.000 no million out Some people have too much money, yes, exactly. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.320 Take the L dude, right, is a cheaper L. But 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.720 he's like, wants peace of mind. So when you have 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.320 that kind of money, this is what you can do 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.960 with it. This is the foolishness. And this is like 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.720 this multi year wine investigation. This is the kind of 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.719 behavior you can expect from billionaires. So I want you 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.880 to keep that in mind as I tell you this story. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.960 I'm just thinking of, like, we got teachers working second 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.360 and third jobs, and then this dude's like my wines 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.360 fake totally throws the further class materials out of their 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.079 own pocket. I mean yeah, and this guy's like million 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.120 to make me happy. Anyway, enough of Bill Coke. You 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.440 ready for one of the biggest heist ever pulled off 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.880 from inside an American prison? Yes? Please, Elizabeth. I don't 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.280 want to like bust you out on this, but you 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.600 once taught in a prison. I did at a federal facility. Yes, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.720 college English classes right right. So when you were doing that, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.920 you had to go through all the prison security. It 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.319 was they would check everything. Even I think you once 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.560 told me an underwire bra was something they would check. Well, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.000 it depends on what part of the prison you're going into. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.400 So the yard, what you would is like the traditional 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.400 big prison. Yeah, that's like I couldn't have bobby pins 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.600 in my hair, the head couldn't wear an underwire bra. Um. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.720 The camp, which is like where the trustees are um, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.760 they didn't have. I mean I was supposed to go 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.880 through it, but it was just I just would show 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.480 up a much more trust and yeah, so I on 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.120 those days, like I could have, you know, bobby pins 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.760 in my hair and an underwear a brown. Let's say 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.480 one of your students when you were in the yard 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.319 asked you to smuggle on the phone so that I'll 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.520 give you ten grand. How difficult would it be to 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.600 smuggle a phone in? It would be pretty rough, I think, Like, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.520 I don't know that I did smuggle something in once 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.240 because now tell me more. Um, they have a limited 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:26.400 library and in a book, I did, and a couple 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:30.120 of them. But it wasn't like you know, I mean, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.560 I just said that was it was materials for the class. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.280 It was outside of the materials for the class, and 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.480 it wasn't anything incendiary. It was just interesting books that 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.680 they couldn't get in their library. So technically I smuggle 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.800 that counts. That counts, I'll give you. And I used 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.400 to also bring them like highlighters, which I'm sure they 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.920 probably wound up using as like crack pipes, who knows, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.520 but anyways, they needed him for my class, and they 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.360 these were good dudes, like my students were really good. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.840 I like that now. The from what I understand, the 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.320 majority of the contraband comes into prisons, is brought in 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.880 by the correctional officer. Yeah, that is true, Okay, so 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.240 keep that in mind. Also as I'm telling you this story, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.439 this story is going to take place inside the Georgia 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.200 Department of Corrections. So just you know one state south 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.400 of South Carolina, specifically, it's the Special Management Unit, which 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.000 is you know, the Maximum Security Wing. Okay, So he's 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.040 in the state's maximum security facility for the state's most 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.920 serious offenders and violent offenders. Right, and that's where this 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.640 dude is hardened criminals in May. His name is Arthur 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.360 Lee Cofield Jr. You can call him June the thirty 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.280 one year old because locked up on a fourteen year 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.200 bid for armed robbery. Right, he's like a career criminal 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.559 and he got his start young. Now, Cofield was a 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.199 documented gang member. He's has active criminal ties to the outside. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.240 For instance, he from inside of prison he arranged to shooting, 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.000 so like he was like actively yeah, that's why he's 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.920 not my dude. But to do that, he had to 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.800 use a contraband phone. Right now, Cofield only had a 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.880 few more months left on his time for his armed 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.040 robbery and so he had a plan to set himself 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.160 up for once he gets back outside. So, as we've covered, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.480 it's no great surprise that a prisoner like Cofield was 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.520 able to have the smuggled cell phone, because you know, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.199 it's the prison guards who were getting it into him. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.480 But he had a history of having smuggled cell phones 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.560 on him. He had even caught twelve times. Twelve times, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.719 and they're not any better going. Maybe we should check 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.240 this guy, but you know whatever, Now, back in twenty sixteen, 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.240 I found a report that he had a Verizon LG 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.920 touchscreen phone and the charger. They were found concealed into 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.679 cofields crotch. Like he's like just gotten tucked in the 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.679 crotch phone. Yeah, he's just tucking a phone. But he 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.280 gets written up for the contraband phone. Cofield says, and 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.000 I quote, I don't give it about that phone. I've 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.080 had hundreds of phones, right, So he's like flexible. I 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.880 think that once the guy, once the guy has the phone, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.640 like they're probably going to have more than one. I 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.360 had a student who um got transferred to a different 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.000 facility because they found four cell phones under his bed 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.000 and was he selling over those just his I don't know. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.920 I didn't ask, you know, and cry, but yeah, that 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.000 was he had a little hash of them under there. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.400 Apparently when I was doing my research into this, I 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.760 found all these stories about like just how good people 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.040 have gotten about smuggling in things into prison. They're now 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.240 using drones to you read the freak stories, Oh we 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.880 tied a phone to a cat, or we got this 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.160 pigeon trained to bring in drugs like meth there into 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.800 a prison. Right, those stories are out there, but the 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.240 drones are now the new crazy story about what goes 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.920 on in prisons. Right, But I don't think that really 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.440 is the point. You know, it's kind of like it 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.120 excuses the correction officers, So I think I want to 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.320 keep the focus on them throughout this. Well, there was 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.960 when I was teaching at the prison, they had an 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:39.040 outbreak of was it k too that synthetically um? There 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.720 were guys taking it in that not in my class, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.480 but then that just general gen pop um who And 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.880 they were having like seizures and collapsing and hallucinations and 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.760 were hauled out and ambulances and um. I was told 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.360 by the guards that oh, it's coming in in the 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.320 spine of books like that they get from family, and 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.760 so we're having to tear up all the books that 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:01.800 come in, which I was like, didn't come from any 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.240 of my books, But then someone else told me, no, dude, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.200 it's the guards. It's not coming in in the spot, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.120 Like the families are not taking apart books and then 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.320 rebinding them to get k two in. I mean, that's 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.480 just come on. Now, it's time for me to tell 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.080 you the other person in this story Sidney Kimmel. Now 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.000 Sidney Kimmel is a California based billionaire. He's the nine 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.200 year old who was worth about one and a half 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.480 billion dollars. You may know him. He founded Jones New York, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.000 the fashion label okay Yes, So he sells that for 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.680 two point two billion, becomes a billionaire. Right Other than 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.880 the Jones New York, Sidney Kimbel also goes insides, I'm 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.440 gonna make a name for myself in Hollywood. He decides like, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.160 I'm done with fashion, I'm gonna go make movies. So 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.720 he's the money man behind a string of movies such 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.600 as Crazy Rich Asians, Hell or High Water Moneyball, the 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.000 flop that Ryan Gosling made about falling in love with 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.120 a sex doll lars and The Real Girl. All these 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:56.720 are his movies united, right, these are all he's just yea. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.000 So Sydney Kimbell does this for a while, then he decides, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:00.720 I'm gonna get into philante a piece. That's what he's 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.240 doing these days. He's all into philanthropy. Like the Johns 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.160 Hopkins University. They get a big endowment from him. So 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.440 now they have a cancer center that has his name 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.320 on it. And there's the going back to the early 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.880 winemaker of American history, Thomas Jefferson. Sidney Kimbell gave money 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.760 to the university to Philadelphia that carries Jefferson's name, and 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.360 it was the medical school now has the Sydney Kimmel name. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:27.160 So when this scam went down, Kimmel was ninety two 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:33.560 years old, so he's always been years young. Really, yeah, 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:39.560 condescend So this aging businessman turn Hollywood philanthropist. He has 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.880 no connection to Cofield, he has no understanding. He doesn't 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.680 know he's about to be a target. Right, He's just 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.800 this ninety two year old guy. He's just trying to 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.680 give money away. Now, he had never met him, had 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.480 no reason to cross pass, would have no idea that 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.160 there was some prisoner locked up in Butts County, Georgia. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.680 Who's got his eye on him? Right now, that's just 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.120 it's just defied his imagine. A Now, for those who 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.280 have never had the pleasure of traveling through Butts County, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.120 I have not. Maybe I have. It's south of Atlanta. Okay, 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.760 I don't think I have, I have, I got, I 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.840 don't know. I don't know. On your way down to 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.440 way Cross, you probably come across. Let's say yes. Now 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.640 you may be wondering, Elizabeth, Sarah, how do you rob 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.960 a billionaire from inside a maximum security stage from how 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.360 do you rob a billionaire from inside a maximum security prison? 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.360 Great question, thank you, thank you. Well you use one 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.600 of the hundreds of contraband phones that you have, and 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.760 Kofield was able to then use this to contact a brokerage. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.280 And these are smartphones. Yeah, these are smartphones. So let's 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.720 take a quick break and then I will tell you 0:16:37.840 --> 0:17:02.359 how he used a smartphone to get stupid on this billionaire. Nice. So, Elizabeth, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.680 we got our dude, I'm not right, dude, but Arthur 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.960 Cofield are. Yeah, he's a bad guy. Are bad guy 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.719 of the story. And then we got Sidney Kimmel, our target. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.720 And mark of the story. And we're about to have 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.920 them meet your ready, not physically, but you'll get the idea. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.560 They're gonna, Okay, they're gonna butterfly this. It's so cute. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.200 So Cofield is able to contact this Charles Schwab brokerage 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:26.520 using a smartphone, right, so in June, Cofield pretends to 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.399 be s K. Yeah, so he calls himself. Now, this 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.200 is the billionaire investor Sidney Kimmel. So he calls Charles 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.480 Schwab up and he gets a broker on the phone, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.240 and Cofield is able to sweet talk this investment firm 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:43.800 into transferring eleven million dollars off Sydney Kimmel's money. Yeah, exactly. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.119 The federal prosecutors still can't exactly determine how it was 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.320 that Cofield was able to find Kimmel or his Charles Schwab. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.600 How did he know he had to give his number, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.280 his account number. Just wait, a nice kind of thing. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.800 I mean, they do have to make those kind of 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.760 transfers over the phone. It's that is yeah, that is true. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.080 So he had the advantage there. Now, So Scott McAfee, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.680 he's a federal prosecutor on this case, he said quote 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.080 Mr coo Field had figured out a way to excess 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.880 accounts belonging to high net worth individuals, frankly billionaires located 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.280 across the country. Now we see why he said billionaires plural? 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.199 Is that because Coo Field also managed to hit up 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.320 Nicole worth Time, who I don't know, but she's apparently 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.600 the wife of Herbert worth Time, who was a Florida 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.919 billionaire who has uh he made his money on eyeglass innovations. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.000 So yeah, billionaire eyeglass guy, so worth of them. Nicole 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.400 worth Time, she gives him two point to five million dollars. Here, 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.800 you know, he's basically transferred out of their account. He's 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.600 able to steal the funds and transferred to a second account, 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.800 then convert him into gold coins because gold coins are 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.680 apparently co Field's fiscal instrument of choice. He just loves 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.520 the double eagle, all right, So he uses that same 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.600 move on Sidney Kimmel. Now, interestingly, in the worth Time case, 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.919 they didn't want to press charges, so he's facing no 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.600 criminal charges for stealing two point to five million. I 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.160 don't know. I don't know if they want to be embarrassed. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.040 I don't know if they don't want their finances like that. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.359 That's probably it could be a little one, a little 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.600 bit of both. And how much did he transfer out 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.560 of fourth time? Two million? Yeah, they're like it's pocket change. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.480 They like it's just an embarrassment. Don't tell people such marks. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.520 So let's get back to our original question. How is 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.000 a bank robbing gang banger who's in prison able to 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.040 call up Charles Schwab and steal from the accounts of 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.160 billionaires with just a cell phone. How let's get into 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.720 the wise and what force Elizabeth arthur Ly Cofield. Uh, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:28.920 let me back up just a second and tell you 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.439 a little b about his criminal history. You can get 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:31.919 an idea of who this guy is and then you 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.600 can imagine him on the phone. Alright, So, arthur Ly Cofield, 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.560 when he was fifteen years old, he robbed his first bank, right, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.280 he goes in, he's not very good at it. It's 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.280 his first time. He walks into a branch of Choice 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.400 Community Bank in Douglasville, Georgia, and he robs them for 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.320 hole dollars. Right, So, when Cofield walks out of the 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.000 bank with his stolen loot, the die pack goes off. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.760 I didn't even know they put a diepack in. Diepack 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.920 goes Yeah, he gets stay with the inc then metaphorically 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.760 is now marked form this point on right now our 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.639 career criminals. So despite his net beginnings as a criminal, 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.720 Arthur co Field, he gets better. He's got natural instincts. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.639 He just is a criminal born right. His attitude, his ambitions, 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.440 his makings all aligned to make him this what will 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.600 soon be a master criminal. Now once he's locked up 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.919 on the inside, co Field insides, you know, I'm a 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.119 young man. I've been a bank robber. I think I 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.600 should go to my next move, which has started prison gang. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.360 So he's just not a fan of the social contract. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.160 So he starts out a prison gang and he names 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.359 his crew y a P. Now y a P stands 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:44.920 for young and paid and yet young in prison exactly. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:50.480 He's apparently this y AP was inspired by his street name, 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:55.199 which was Yeap Lavish. Yap Lavish, That's what he was 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.719 known on the street. So Yeap Lavish a k A. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.840 Arthur Cofield Jr. His street name game is weak week 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:06.320 according to me, I'll tell him to his face. You 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.520 tell ye lavish right to his face, Elizabeth, So yeah, Lavish. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.080 Once he's in prison, he manages to have somewhat of 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.399 a normal life on the outside even though he's locked up. 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:17.640 On the inside. He's a young man. He gets himself 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.320 a girlfriend. Now. Her name was Selena Holmes. She lives 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.320