Md. Man Charged In Fake Pharrell Concert Set To Plead Guilty
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man charged in several scams, including conning a South Korean steel company out of $375,000 by claiming he could help them book a Pharrell concert, was scheduled to plead guilty.
Sigismond Segbefia, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is due in court Wednesday before a federal judge in Pittsburgh. He was arrested on fraud and identity theft charges in April.
He's being prosecuted in Pittsburgh because authorities say he also used a Pennsylvania postal worker's identity to bilk more than $445,000 from women he met online.
Segbefia is a 28-year-old native of Ghana who is in the U.S. legally.
The FBI says Segbefia used a shell company he incorporated in Maryland called Eastern Stars LLC to make his various claims seem legitimate.
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