An Italian man accused of fraudulently obtaining more than 1,000 book manuscripts before publication pleaded guilty before a United States court on Friday.
Filippo Bernardini, a 30-year-old publishing industry worker formerly living in London, faces one charge of wire fraud for engineering a multi-year scheme to target up-and-coming writers as well as big names like Canada’s Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale.
