Once a scammer, at all times a scammer? That’s the query after Florida officers hauled Malachi Love-Robinson again to jail for his third recognized rip-off in lower than ten years. Malachi gained notoriety in 2016, at 18, after impersonating a health care provider, opening a pretend clinic, and utilizing each to steal 1000’s.
Last week, the 25-year-old acquired a jail sentence of two years and 4 months in Palm Beach County, Florida. The ruling got here after he pleaded responsible to grand theft and an organized scheme to defraud.
According to court docket paperwork reviewed by BuzzFeed News, the previous pretend physician labored as a salesman in 2020. Love-Robinson’s employer, the United States of Freight, connects shippers with trucking corporations, amongst different delivery wants.
Malachi pleaded responsible to stealing greater than $10,000 throughout his employment. He stole the funds by directing clients to make funds to an account registered in his title moderately than the corporate’s licensed accounts. Love-Robinson additionally acquired funds utilizing Venmo and Paypal.
Malachi’s scheme was uncovered after the corporate proprietor Dan O’Sullivan spoke to clients about their funds. After O’Sullivan confronted Malachi, the previous Doctor Love admitted to accepting direct funds by way of textual content messages.
“I swear I wasn’t thinking, and I will make it right,” Robinson-Love texted O’Sullivan. “I get these compulsive stages and do things without thinking.”
His 28-month sentence comes after he was first arrested in January 2021.