Men spun tale of Illuminati to scam rural cabinet maker out of $1 million, feds say
The convoy of security vehicles racing through rural Kaufman County escorted by a helicopter likely turned heads.
But it was not the arrival of the Illuminati, as Joshua Pugh and Johnny Glenn Clifton claimed, according to federal authorities.
Nor were Pugh and Clifton members of the mythical clandestine group of wealthy and powerful individuals who were said to control world events, officials said. Pugh had previously worked entry-level jobs at Little Caesars and Burger King, and Clifton was ordered to repay $150,000 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for false claims about oil and gas partnership interests, federal authorities say.
The vehicles and helicopter were part of an elaborate ruse perpetrated by Pugh and Clifton to scam an isolated, expert cabinet maker out of about $1 million between November 2015 and March 2017, according to an indictment that was unsealed Thursday in Dallas.
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