www.esryle.comLOCAL NEWS ACROSS THE NATION
Posted on 08/16/2004 7:56:47 AM PDT by esryle
August 15, 2004 — For two days, a Palos Heights man passed himself off as an F-B-I agent while lecturing to hundreds of law-enforcement officers at a Chicago conference. But Mark Rizzo's cover was blown by day three. Real F-B-I agents arrested the impersonator in a conference room of a Chicago hotel yesterday.
Federal prosecutors charged Rizzo with impersonating an F-B-I employee. The 51-year-old faces up to three years in prison.
An F-B-I agent attending the conference checked out Rizzo's background after speaking to him and figured out he was an impersonator.
Peotone-based National Gang Crime Research Center hosted the conference. Organizers say they never ran a background check on Rizzo and are embarrassed by the scam.
So much for the Pretender.
Am I the only one who is a bit nervous about it taking the FBI three days to discover this?
I bet they were watching him to see what he was saying and doing. To see if this went deeper than just one man.
Was he staying at a Holiday Inn?
HI ya Jerky, FRANK RIZZO here, I hear you arrested my brother...........
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