is Cafasso perpetrating another scam?

Looks like the newest another fraud name that Joe Cafasso chose is Tony Ryals. He has used these email addresses: tryals@angelfire.com and wolfblitzzer0@gmail.com

Is he still living with Andrea Ello in Chesterton as some commenters have told me...or has he moved on?

It is typical for him to perform community service in churches - those are the most giving and he thinks stupid people - that is the perfect environment for him to make up a new sob story and take advantage of priests and ministers; and his favorite marks which are lonely older women so he can make sure, like with Andrea Ello, he gets his hands on a tidy little nest egg.

Remember; his mother used to pay for his train tickets so watch how he gets around and how he arrives in your town.

There are a number of things to be shared on this score, we now have a very interested team looking into this.

There are multiple reasons why indymedia should be deleting his spam

See as one example: http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/11641

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um...Joe, you're not exactly anonymous...the ridiculous signature writing style on equally as ridiculous subject matter (which is why indymedia is flagging your posts as spam) is tipping everyone off.

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This appears to have taken place in the 2008/2009 time period.

Where did he go?

He's not at the Porter County Jail.

Do a google search, you won't find a shred of evidence that he was even arrested; google appears to have been wiped clean in the 'news' section.

Stormer aka Cafasso; his subterfuge capsizes!

Storm, Stormer, Cafasso—A Subterfuge Capsizes - from the North Country Gazette.

Nice article, but I'm not quoting from it after having received a good scolding via email for having done so previously....despite my request INSIDE THE POST because I couldn't find contact information at the NCG!

Expert in many fields only an expert in cons

Joe Cafasso aka Robert Stormer in his Porter County Indiana Mug Shot

From that brilliant Andy Grimm at the Post-Tribune who has come the closest of all journalists to the real story:

Robert Stormer was making quite a name for himself in Porter County.

In the few months he lived here, he settled in with a Chesterton widow and bragged of his 18 years' experience as a storm chaser, his decorated career in the military, his successful business in Chicago, his passion for volunteer work, and his connections in New York and Washington.

That's typical of his profile; he is not satisfied being who he is; he needs to be someone else!

He gave well-attended seminars on severe weather at Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton, seeking publicity from local newspapers for his speech. He maintained a blog. He planned to host a talk show on a Michigan City radio station.

He gave well-attended seminars on severe weather at Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton, seeking publicity from local newspapers for his speech. He maintained a blog. He planned to host a talk show on a Michigan City radio station.

And to those he knew better, he hinted at a darker side to his life of adventure, of the scrutiny from Washington insiders, the FBI and the CIA.

And when a conservation officer stopped him on his way out of the state park Oct. 2, Bob Stormer was the name he gave.

And it turned out Robert Stormer wasn't his name at all.

It's a good thing they found out who he was at this point; and it's a good thing Tony kept searching for his name.

Under his given name of Joseph A. Cafasso Jr., "Rob Stormer" was charged with giving a false name to police, speeding and driving with a suspended license. He didn't show up for his November court date, and was arrested in January at the Jasper County Library in Wheatfield, where he had been scheduled to give a presentation on storm chasing.

Did you get that, "fly"? GIVING A FALSE NAME TO POLICE, along with the traffic violations which Cramer said wouldn't "stick"!

So far, he has not been able to pay the $500 bond, and remains in jail awaiting trial on the false informing and traffic charges.

I'm amazed that no one has bailed him out yet! Cramer, where are you? Or what about the Johnson fellow? There are some people who--no matter what he does--they have a tremendous amount of sympathy and excuses to offer for his behavior!

Conservation officers and the Chesterton Police said they have passed their investigation of Cafasso, ostensibly a traffic stop, to the FBI.

It will be interesting to see if anything comes of it; nothing has happened in the past when people have reported about Cafasso to the FBI.  Cafasso as Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood was passing his own information to the FBI...he was used as a source by the FBI!

The FBI would not comment on whether an investigation of Cafasso is in the works. Other than the traffic offenses, what crimes Cafasso might have committed in Northwest Indiana aren't clear.

That's the way it seems to be with him, although isn't embezzlement a crime--isn't embezzling money under a false name STILL FRAUD?

But it seems a bizarre reckoning for Cafasso, who in 2002 convinced Fox News executives that he was a retired lieutenant colonel and became a paid consultant on intelligence and military affairs for the network.

How did he do it? People who know him say it's a combination of sheer charisma -- and not just a little b.s.

You said it, ANDY!

After several months, the New York Times reported, it was revealed Cafasso's military experience amounted to 44 days in the Army in 1976. Fox fired him, and Cafasso later appeared in a documentary on the network, still claiming to be a decorated veteran and griping about Fox producers.

Of course, when he's not in control (or he is found out), he gets irritated and angry. That is when he is dangerous.

Cafasso was well on his way to winning over Department of Natural Resources staff at Dunes State Park, convincing them he was an expert on storms and marine salvage.

During his first presentation, Cafasso patched in calls with the mayor of Greensburg, Kan., whose town had been flattened by tornadoes in 2007, and a French yacht owner who had nearly died in a shipwreck in Tropical Storm Andrea, said Brad Baumgartner, a park worker who booked Cafasso for two speaking engagements.

"He was pretty good. There was nothing that he was saying that sounded like an inaccuracy," Baumgartner said. "To that time, we didn't know anything to say that he wasn't who he said he was."

Well, as discussed earlier, when questioned about his credentials he gets angry and considers it harassment. That might be a telling sign...

And who was he?

Fox officials believed Cafasso was indeed a former Special Forces officer who seemed to have connections throughout the Pentagon and on military bases across the country.

But Fox officials learned the truth-he spent only 44 days in the Army before someone figured something out-he was released as "unsuitable for service" from the Army-and for that reason and others (including his pompous attitude)- they fired him.

He met Andrea Ello, a Chesterton widow who responded to his profile on an on-line dating site. His username was "shipdude," and he posted a picture of himself wearing deep sea diving gear that obscured his face, and two photos of shipwrecks.

There are too many pictures of him out on the internet now; and there are too many people who are interested in his being caught and prosecuted. If only more of these women would come forward to declare what it is he did to them!

In his profile, he claimed to be 58-year-old "senior master salvor" from Chicago, who supervised the recovery of ships worldwide, a man with "twin engineering degrees" and an "associates in the culinary arts."

"Most importantly, and the love that I am married to is international humanitarian relief operations," the profile reads. "Yep got under my skin. Yes I like to travel maybe even with a new found love."

It makes no mention of his military experience or his work for Fox.

Well of course not! This man is not stupid! He is a consummate liar and his dating profile was a LURE!

Cafasso's passion for storm chasing also goes unmentioned, but he clearly knew a great deal about severe weather and sailing, said Jean Pierre de Lutz, the French expatriate whom Cafasso included in the conference call for his Dunes weather talk.

De Lutz and his two-man crew survived a harrowing shipwreck in the North Atlantic in 2007 aboard his boat, the Sean Seymour II, a story that was widely publicized in the sailing community both for its drama and because of equipment malfunctions that made the adventure all the more dangerous.

Unfortunately, he jumped right in to save the day - but things unraveled afterward and although he did a lot of things that were helpful, what he did afterward was completely despicable.

Reached at his home in France, de Lutz said Cafasso contacted him later in 2007, using the name Robert Stormer, and began what would become 18 months of intensive research into the wreck, which included complex forecasting simulations, flurries of correspondence with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, and de Lutz's team of three Orlando-based attorneys.

Yes, he has the ability to go that far with things undetected under the guise of being a do-gooder! And actually accomplishing some good things!

Cafasso's work, initially, led to changes in NOAA forecasting reports and reforms, de Lutz said. The Post-Tribune was unable to reach anyone from NOAA to confirm they had contact with Stormer or Cafasso.

It's unfortunate.  The NOAA would be somewhat embarrassed - just as it is with the FBI and other agencies he's dealt with in the past.

At any rate, Cafasso's findings took a turn to the fantastic, de Lutz said. Cafasso provided a series of e-mails that seemed to implicate senior NOAA officials and congressional leaders in a cover-up of sorts, de Lutz said. Cafasso and Ello stayed for three weeks in Orlando, hosted at the home of one of de Lutz's lawyers, as they prepared a lawsuit.

De Lutz's legal team was waiting for a key document to be released following a congressional hearing when Cafasso announced he had been called to aid a salvage crew dealing with a shipwreck off the coast of Newfoundland.

Kind of like his story about "I was in the North Sea when I got the call about Hurricane Katrina".  That was when he was using the name "Jay Cafasso" in Louisiana, if I recall.  He got caught up in the big tales he was telling to JP and had no way out except to 'disappear'.  This is his PATTERN.

Cafasso left, and soon after stopped answering calls from de Lutz and his lawyers. De Lutz believes a laptop computer belonging to Cafasso that Ello turned over to Chesterton Police will have dozens of e-mails, many of them likely faked, between Cafasso and officials with NOAA, the Coast Guard and congressional aides.

Oopsie, a little detail you left out there, Andy - that's not Cafasso's computer - that's Cramer's apple laptop which she GAVE Cafasso when he was posing as Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood. He couldn't be pursued for theft of the laptop or the charges on her American Express card because she willingly gave them to him - but she gave him the card, thinking it was to HOLD the room-not to pay for his staying there for a month- he did all of this to Kathryn Cramer pretending to be someone that doesn't exist - and that is STILL FRAUD.  And what he did to Tony Ello's mother is fraud, too.

De Lutz admits he paid for a hotel room for Cafasso, who claimed to have lost his wallet, and that he believes Cafasso somehow got the card number and used it to make a purchase in Indiana. He also wired money to Ello on Cafasso's behalf, $1,000 Cafasso said he would use to buy a piece of meteorological equipment.

"So he got maybe $2,500 from me," de Lutz said. "And this, for 18 months of work? It doesn't make sense."

No, it doesn't! And he has repeated this act a number of times under numerous aliases!

Cafasso, Stormer and more

Cafasso has declined requests for an interview by the Post-Tribune, but he reportedly has talked to Ello, and to John Johnson, a Tucson, Ariz., minister who said he met Cafasso in the early 1990s when Jones was selling marine equipment and Cafasso was working for a marine salvage company in New York.

There is something very odd about this John Johnson in Tuscon Arizona....if it's the minister I'm thinking of, he's not out of Arizona; he's out of Lombard, Illinois...someone who acted as a surrogate mother for Cafasso and paid for his train tickets.

The two stayed in touch over the years, with Johnson gathering that Cafasso had an engineering degree and may have been in the Delta Force, an elite military unit. Johnson said he never thought to question Cafasso, who attended Johnson's wife's funeral in 1999 and has remained in occasional contact. That year, Johnson had dinner at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, with Cafasso and a man who was a retired CIA officer.

"I don't know anything about his military experience, I don't know how you confirm that," Johnson said. "But it's pretty hard to fool the CIA."

But Cafasso is not a stupid man; he has just channeled his intelligence in a very unique way.

In 2006, Jones said Cafasso was using the name "Jay" and occasionally a last name of "Black or Black-something," to avoid followers of Jonathan Idema. Idema was accused of operating an illegal prison in Afghanistan who also had apparently wildly overstated his military experience, and reportedly believes he was wronged by Cafasso.

Not according to this!  Idema had not "wildly overstated his military experience" - there is no proof of that. There IS, however, proof that Cafasso is not what he claimed to be, let's stay on the subject of Cafasso here!

In the blogosphere, where there are several sites maintained by disgruntled acquaintances devoted to tracking Cafasso's movements, he is believed to have used the aliases Jay Mosca and Gerry Blackwood, the latter a decorated military officer in the mold of Cafasso's Fox News persona.

And that's because he couldn't use his given name any longer; particularly since the New York Times article by Jim Rutenberg "At Fox News the Colonel Who Wasn't" was published.

Johnson put Cafasso in touch with a church in Mendenhall, Miss., where Cafasso would spend several weeks working with the congregation and even helping the church secure a $250,000 grant.

And Johnson also paid for his train tickets and who knows what else?

"He didn't make a dime," said Johnson. "He got roof over his head and what passed for food. And he worked incredibly hard."

For some odd reason, like Andrea Ello, Johnson is enable to see Cafasso for the fraud he is - even NOW.

But Cafasso clashed with church leaders, who eventually found the Times article and the many anti-Cafasso sites on the Internet. Cafasso left town soon after. Church leaders and Mendenhall Police Chief Bruce Barlow did not return calls from the Post-Tribune.

Now why wouldn't they be interested in information on Cafasso at this point? Are they merely relieved he has left and have closed the book? Wouldn't they want to compare notes with other agencies such as the FBI on what it is he accomplished while gallavanting across the country under numerous aliases?

Johnson said he would not hesitate to recommend Cafasso to another church, and he worries about why DNR officers seemed intent on investigating Cafasso. "Knowing the guy, I just don't want to see him get the shaft," Johnson said.

You should want to see him face justice for what he's done, though, Mr. Johnson.

Cafasso and Ello had become daily visitors to Indiana Dunes State Park, and were among the first people to the beach during an Aug. 2 drowning at Kemil Beach. Post-Tribune photographers shot pictures of Cafasso, identified as Robert Stormer, scanning the waves with others two days later.

It would be interesting to lay hands on those photographs.

Cafasso told Johnson he began barking orders to rescue crews at the beach, calling on his lengthy experience in maritime rescue opearations. Others with knowledge of the incident said Cafasso did indeed critique the rescue attempt while at the beach, and may have tried to drive off on a DNR officer's ATV.

He may have tried to drive off on a DNR officer's ATV but Johnson wouldn't like to see Cafasso get the shaft? Something is odd about this.

Cafasso didn't show up for his second scheduled storm chasing presentation in June, and was stopped for speeding on his way out of the park in August.

After giving his real name to police, Cafasso said he was using the alias to avoid the CIA and FBI.

He's afraid of something else; just as Cramer is. Don't worry Kathryn, Idema won't lay his hands on your computer now that it's in the hands of the FBI, but it's rather interesting that the real reason they're both afraid hasn't been identified by the press.

Cafasso apparently has not earned a profit much from his schemes. A few weeks in Florida here, a few months with Ello in Chesterton, highlighted by trips to the beach and a few thousand dollars from de Lutz -- and all of it earned not just on strength of his resume, but with spurts of dogged, hard work.

It's pathetic, isn't it.?

A possible explanation

If Cafasso is not, in fact, a veteran special forces officer and wealthy marine salvage expert who chases storms and aids international relief organizations as a hobby, he likely suffers from one or more personality disorders, said Valparaiso University psychology professor Jim Nelson.

"There are several different psychological paths to this sort of thing," Nelson said. "He has an anti-social personality disorder -- basically, he's a person who doesn't have a conscience, who doesn't see that what he does is hurting people, or doesn't care, rather.

"Then there is more of a delusional, psychotic disorder, if he actually believes these things he says."

He deserves to get some mental help, and I hope they have a psychiatrist examine him because he is a unique specimen, to be sure.

Indeed, most of Cafasso's cons seem to fall apart not because he gets greedy, but because can't stop pushing the lies, and struggling to dominate the people he is conning.

At Fox, he clashed with producers, in Mendenhall he crossed church leaders, at Dunes State Park, he tried to show up staffers.

Each time, his attempts to take control prompted the people he was conning to look more closely at his credentials, to question his expertise -- and of course, the personality clashes gave him an explanation for why he had to leave and why his detractors would want to expose him as a liar.

"From what I've seen of him, he's a two-bit con man, but he's capable of pulling much bigger scams.

Most certainly, which is why he deserves jail time and mental help! Hopefully he won't see the light of day as a free man until some of this is unraveled!

"There's this delirium that takes over him, but there is some intelligence behind it," said de Lutz, summarizing his experience with Cafasso.

"He did things that were incredibly good, and all of a sudden, he went off on a tangent and he's writing a novel. My guess is he lives in fantasy land."

Yes he is...but it's a fantasy land that poses severe danger to those who get close to him.

But he is not harmless, Nelson said.

"Many people aren't truthful on occasion ... but it's far different to say that someone only tells the truth occasionally, and when they do, it's probably by mistake," Nelson said. "These people are out there, and the average person is not aware of them, that there are people out there with no sense of obligation to others."

Contact Andy Grimm at 648-3073 or agrimm@post-trib.com. Comment on this story at www.post-trib.com

Overall, very nice job with this story, Andy, although I would recommend not smearing the name of Idema as a fraud until you can provide proof for what it is you're putting in print.  You might end up like Mariah Blake and Columbia University did...on the receiving end of a subpoena. Nothing has been mentioned here about Jack Idema's litigiousness. It is something people should take note of when they are using hearsay and word-of-mouth about people and then turning around and putting it into print as though it were fact.

Son says con man bilked his mother of savings

Gary Post-Tribune

Tony Ello's life reads like a detective novel since he met a man named Robert Stormer a little more than a year ago.

It's a story about Ello, a regular guy who owns a bowling alley, meeting up with a shady character dating his mother. He and his wife spend a year tracking down the tall tales of Robert Stormer, who's salvaged boats, chased storms, served as a Navy officer and owns never-seen vehicles and aircraft.

But Ello's story is real. The name -- Robert Stormer -- is not. He's Joseph Cafasso, who now sits in the Porter County Jail, as Ello from Chesterton recounts his tale of how he and his wife detected a fraud.

They hope their story cautions others down the road from getting ensnared by Cafasso, a man who exudes immense confidence and intelligence.

Thank you, Tony. That is what this blog is all about...to caution people down the road that this could very well happen to someone they love.

First meeting

Cafasso stopped by Ello's bowling alley with Ello's mother, whom he was dating after meeting through an online dating site.

He introduced himself as "Robert Stormer," the same name Andrea Ello, Tony's mother, knew him as.

And he was a storm chaser.

"I thought 'bullsh--'," Tony said. "Stormer? Being a storm chaser? He talks a good game."

He certainly does! He has scammed so many people it's ridiculous! The tragedy is how long this has been going on and it's a shame that Kathryn Cramer hasn't come clean as to the depth and breadth of her relationship with him.

Then, he shared other details. He told Ello he was a retired lieutenant commander in the Navy's "Salvage Department" and is consulted regularly as an expert in salvaging nuclear weapons in oceans.

All within that first meeting, "Stormer" mentioned he and his family of lawyers and engineers runs a company. He claimed he had signatory rights of up to $300,000.

And on the spot, he expressed his interest to partner up with the bowling business.

Well of course, he smelled a chance to make off with some cash.

Tony, 43, brushed it off and told him he'd look into it. His reservations grew when he couldn't find any information about "Stormer" on the Internet.

"I'm a nobody and my name shows up on the Internet," he said. "I couldn't verify anything he said."

After a few months, he stopped giving "Stormer" the benefit of the doubt.

He and Evelyn, his wife, took a time-consuming interest in pursuing "Stormer's" identity.

Until earlier this year, the couple tried to nudge Andrea away from the man, but to no avail.

Andrea declined to be interviewed for this story.

That is where a lot of women left in his path of destruction wind up; embarrassed and broken-hearted; not willing to file charges, even.

Strange stories

Tony and Evelyn picked up on some odd patterns that included "Stormer" often talking on the phone in the spur of the moment -- even though no one heard the phone ring.

It didn't ring, and he didn't dial!

He would also make grandiose plans, including private helicopter rides to Chicago to see a musical theater performance or a trip to Rhode Island to visit his hospitalized nephew.

How dramatic - I have tickets to go see "Wicked"...and then when the helicopter shows up, he said "we can use the tickets later".  Anyone who's been to the theatre knows it doesn't quite work that way.

And every time, those plans never panned out. An emergency came up and he had to stay put to consult clients over the phone, Cafasso would explain to the family.

When Cafasso claimed that his nephew in Rhode Island was in a coma, Evelyn, a Porter hospital nurse, checked every hospital in the state. Nothing turned up.

"If you've been around a habitual liar, you can spot traits," said Evelyn, 40.

Cafasso lived in Andrea's house in Tefft and essentially lived off her savings. Her home served as a "glorified homeless shelter," Evelyn said.

Unfortunately it was a widow's life's savings that went down the tubes; and not the funds from a Christian ministry or the government. Cafasso doesn't care about anyone but himself - but even then you have to wonder just what exactly he thinks he's accomplishing with all of this; because the pattern repeats itself; time and again!

Big discovery

Within a couple of months Ello and his wife began a series of attempts to uncover "Stormer."

With help from friends, Evelyn concocted a secret identity on a dating site to try to trap Cafasso. She printed out the e-mail correspondence, which included him offering his phone number. They showed the e-mails to Andrea.

But in the end, Evelyn's plan fizzled, only leaving Andrea angry at her.

Now that is odd; you'd think his pursuits of other women would cause Andrea to confront him.

Then in August, the couple began to unravel the web of "Stormer's" calculated lies.

Tony had been typing "Robert Stormer" in a Google search nearly every other day.

On that August day, his search brought out a comment from a blog that exposed Stormer as Joseph Cafasso, "the infamous con artist," it read.

From then on, the Ellos had no trouble searching Cafasso's background.

They stumbled across an April 2002 New York Times profile on him that exposed him as a fraud as well as an extensive Wikipedia page about him.

Despite the overwhelming case against him, Andrea couldn't let go of Cafasso.

"I don't know what goes on in the mind of a lonely widow," Tony said. "She was hanging on to tiny, itty, bitty possible truths instead of the big picture."

It's sad and little consolation to realize that Andrea is not alone in how she's responded to this.; there have been many others before her.

The jig is up

Last October, an officer from the state Department of Natural Resources pulled Cafasso over at Indiana Dunes State Park for speeding and driving with a suspended license.

Authorities discovered that "Robert Stormer" was an alias and also charged him with lying to an officer.

They finally arrested Cafasso last month after he failed to show up at court on those charges.

While in jail, his personal laptop was with Andrea. When Tony found out, he and his mother turned it over to the Chesterton police and it's now held as evidence.

Since Cafasso came into their lives, Tony and Evelyn's relationship with Andrea had deteriorated.

Sometime in early January, Andrea began to distance herself from him, Tony said. She is facing possible bankruptcy because of unpaid bills. She had trusted Cafasso's claim that he had a hefty paycheck on the way for them.

But now the family is back on speaking terms.

"I hope she's learned her lesson," Tony said. "But she's an adult and she'll make up her own mind."

VeriSeal and Cafasso exchange

Please notice that this is an exchange between Cafasso and the fellows who ran the VeriSeal site.

It is Cafasso's vendetta against Idema that shows at his blog,"Stuporpatriots" .

The blog posts at Stuporpatriots are old. He disappeared once he realized Idema was leaving Afghanistan. Cafasso quickly moved on to the Lt. Col. Jay Mosca persona, the Robert Stormer persona, the Jay Cafasso persona, and whatever else he could manage to fly under the radar.

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003
To: VeriSEAL Group
From: JACafasso [at] aol.com (Joseph Cafasso)
Subject: Idema v. Fox News, et al.

Gentlemen:

My name is Joseph Cafasso and I have been directed to your site. I have noted that you have posted the NY Times, March 29, 2002 article "At Fox News, the Colonel Who Wasn't" by Jim Rutenberg.

I have been silent way to (sic) long with regard to this story and that is about to change. There is much that this article did not print nor (sic) even know about. I muse with people who will post trash as gospel without even making contact to find out what the details really were. But that is not why I write now.

Your site is linked to the Hunt For Bin Laden Site owned and operated by J. Keith Idema. If you do not know who Mr. Idema is I recommend that you contact Mr. Jimmy Dean of the Special Forces Association. Mr. Idema is a convicted felon and served four years for 56 counts of wire fraud. The Robin Moore Book is highly controversial due to Mr. Idema's involvement. Currently I am not only involved in a civil litigation with Mr. Idema but I have a criminal complaint with the US Attorney's Office against Mr. Idema for impersonating a DOD Contracting Officer while he was a mercenary in Afghanistan and this investigation is pending. I might be called many things. But I have never been arrested for anything criminal nor did I work at Fox for any notoriety or monetary achievements. While at Fox I had a purpose of which (sic) is about to come out. Everything I did at Fox was with Honor one that was stolen due to politics and if you don't believe it you may contact Mr. Brit Hume wh (sic)

I am not asking for the removal of the article. You have a Second Amendment Right even if it is blind. Though the real story is about to come out. However, I am asking that the link to Mr. Idema's website be terminated until all legal proceedings are completed. It is violating the LA County Court Rules and potentially. I have already made this demand to Mr. Idema's attorney as well.

I do not think your organization wants to lend any creditability (sic) to Mr. Idema at this time. While I have no intentions of enjoining your organization in this matter.

Again, contact the Special Forces Association if you have any questions.

Thank You
Joseph Cafasso

I am preserving this here because the VeriSeal site appears to be down.

From: VeriSEAL Group
To: JACafasso [at] aol.com (Joseph Cafasso)
Subject: Re: Idema v. Fox News, et al.
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:14:57 (GMT)

Dear PFC Cafasso,

Thank you for your letter and your reminder of our Constitutional right to keep and bear free speech. Your abstruse
knowledge of this nation's founding precepts is most impressive.

In light of the fact that the link in question is to our site, and not from our site as you indicated, there is very little we can
do apart from sending them a "thank you" note.

We look forward to the earth-shattering revelations of your actual mission at Fox News. Such disclosures by you will
almost certainly serve to relieve us of our burdensome ignorance. We can only surmise that you were on a highly
classified operation to infiltrate Fox News and thereby effect monitoring and manipulation of their information so as to
disinform the Iraqi military. No doubt you are/were in the employ of a highly classified DoD unit tasked with unspeakably
sensitive operations, the existence of which is known only to POTUS and the makers of Reynold's Wrap.

As for your merciful offer to pardon us from litigation, thank you, although there remains some question as to whether
we could in fact be sued for fair-use reprinting of a news item even if the future of all mankind hung in the balance. But
we defer to your legal expertise.

With all due respect, we will forego your recommendation of contact to Mr. Jimmy Dean and simply copy this
correspondence to a member of the Special Forces Association Board of Directors as well as numerous other
interested parties.


Regards

VeriSEAL Group

joe cafasso

FBI now investigating 'spy' arrested at Dunes

FBI now investigating 'spy' arrested at Dunes - Gary Post-Tribune

February 20, 2009
By Andy Grimm
Post-Tribune staff writer

An alleged con man who reportedly duped high-profile military and political figures claiming to be a counterintelligence expert and Special Forces officer now is being investigated by the FBI, local officials said Thursday.

It's relatively common knowledge that Cafasso is indeed a con artist. The long history of frauds he has pulled under numerous aliases some of which are listed in the header on this blog- rivals that of the relatively short career of Abagnale of "Catch Me If You Can" fame.

Joseph Cafasso, 52, has been in the Porter County Jail since Jan. 22, awaiting trial for failing to appear in court on charges of speeding and giving a false name to police investigators after he was pulled over in the Indiana Dunes State Park in October.

Conservation officers declined to comment Thursday on Cafasso, stating his case had been referred to the FBI for further investigation. FBI officials declined to say if they are investigating Cafasso.

And I doubt if they will ever make a statement regarding their "friend" and "stool pigeon".

According to an April 29, 2002, report in the New York Times, Cafasso claimed to be a well-connected spy who had a high-rank career in the Special Forces. Alleged victims included the Fox News network, Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign and "several representatives, military officials and activists to whom he had sold himself for years," the Times reported.

Cafasso also appeared as a military and counterterrorism expert during Fox's coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan, even though military records show that his total military experience was 44 days of boot camp at Fort Dix, N.J., in 1976.

Cafasso reportedly had been living for several months with a Chesterton woman whom he met on an Internet dating Web site, where he posted his identity as "Robert Stormer." That also was the name Cafasso initially gave to Conservation Officer Robert Kauffmann, as well as a false Social Security number, before admitting his real name.

The woman turned over to Chesterton police a laptop computer that belonged to Cafasso and investigators there said they might seek a warrant to search the computer's memory for evidence in an investigation of Cafasso.

That laptop is Kathryn Cramer's apple laptop, and I'm certain she would like to get it back.

All that stands between Cafasso and freedom, pending trial, is $500 bond, the Porter County Sheriff's department said.

That's sad and appalling, considering what they should be investigating regarding his escapades in Indiana and Florida.

Cafasso's alleged exploits have garnered him a Wikipedia page, and several other Web sites and blogs devoted to tracking his movements and activities.

Contact Andy Grimm at 648-3073 or agrimm@post-trib.com

That is an understatement, Andy! Cafasso's exploits should garner him a film and a book deal! Perhaps one day he will be in a position to capitalize on what he has done to defraud widows and spinsters out of cash--maybe he could advise people like Abagnale has done - should he ever decide to "come clean" and avoid prosecution for criminal identity theft and embezzlement.

joe cafasso

Andrea Ello is Bunny E Rabbit

What an odd visual that is, particularly when you know that Andrea was Joe Cafasso's love interest and the widow that he victimized.  In light of that, it is very interesting to see how Andrea Ello was helping Joe Cafasso with her own blog.

Bunny E. Rabbit has a blog at blogspot, and the posts are published by "Andrea".

The last post on this blog is from September of 2008, presumably somewhere around the time that he was arrested in October (or at least stopped) while she was sitting in the car alongside him.  The drowning incident that he injected himself into where he raised the suspicions of rescue workers and authorities occurred in August 2008. 

The question remains: who is updating Robin Storm's blogspot blog while Cafasso sits in an Indiana jail? If you have any information you'd like to share, email me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com.

Joe Cafasso outted as Rob Stormer or Robert Stormer aka Robin Storm

This is from the North Country Gazette charging Rob Stormer with plagiarism in October of 2007. When you realize the person you're dealing with is in fact Joe Cafasso, this entire article not only makes a lot of sense, it is quite humorous - as he doesn't like it when people question his faux credentials or challenge him in any way.

The North Country Gazette is particularly sensitive about having articles even partially quoted on any other website, as I have been contacted in spite of my notes INSIDE THE POST regarding acknowledgement and not seeing any contact information in order to request permission to use the material. Hence, I am nuking any further references to NCG except for the link.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram published an article written by "Robert Stormer", the "retired lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve, serving with the Navy's Supervisor of Salvage, a "specialist" in weapons retrieval, a marine engineer and marine salve specialist.

You can see references to that article here.

[DOC] Nuke transportation story has explosive implications By Robert ...
File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML
Nuke transportation story has explosive implications. By Robert Stormer. Special to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Article Last Updated: 10/08/2007 07:26:09 ...
www.newsfollowup.com/docs/iran/stormer_b-52_nucs.doc -

Cafasso seemed to appreciate the Star Telegram's publishing this article, as you can see references to it elsewhere where Robert Stormer wanted to boost his bonafides.

Missing Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order
Oct 23, 2007 ... [6] Robert Stormer, Nuke transportation story has explosive implications, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Octobers 8, 2007. ...
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7158 - 95k

The NCG asked Stormer to provide credentials such as the college where Cafasso received his degree in marine engineering, or where he worked - or the name of his employer, military credentials including date of discharge, and in true Cafasso-eque fashion, he not only refused, but threatened the editor of the NCG that if he/she (I think it's a she) emailed Cafasso any further, Cafasso would consider such action to be harassment.

So another signature of Cafasso's is to respond in a rude manner when asked for proof of the credentials he boasts about; otherwise he turns the tables on the person inquiring and throws accusations of harassment at them.

At No Quarter, owned by Larry Johnson, a commenter charges Stormer’s article from the Telegram is a product of simple plagiarism. http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2007/10/08/nuke-transportation-story-has-explosive-implications/

Comment by Blunt Force Trauma | 2007-10-08 20:54:59

Another huge problem with Robin Storm’s story goes like this;

“Yes, we still do fly nuclear warheads over the United States today. We also drive them over land as well. That’s not the point.”

Yes, it is the point when you don’t clarify that point. Nuclear weapons are normally transferred on cargo planes, never on the wings of bombers. Bomber flights with live nuclear weapons ended in the late 1960s after accidents in Spain in 1966 and in Greenland in 1968.

Also, Robin’s story reads remarkably a lot like this one (I smell plagarism) http://freeworldsurvey.blogspot.com/2007/09/6-nukes-fly-over-us-big-problems-with.html

Once again, I’m thinking…..recycling bin”.

Notice to North Country Gazette: You've crossed paths with one of the most infamous frauds of all time. Robert Stormer (aka Robin Storm and numerous other pseudonyms) is in fact the infamous con artist, womanizer and embezzler, Joe Cafasso, the man who is such an epic colossal fraud he was written up in the New York Times by James Rutenberg in an article called "At Fox News, the Colonel Who Wasn't."

And something else for the publisher at North Country Gazette: I would respectfully like to use this snippet (which is almost the entire article) for which I've provided a link back. If you want to be contacted about publishing your material, you might want to have your contact information more readily available, or at least a comments section or perhaps "contact" page- somewhere where people could request it in a civil and polite manner. My contact information will from here forward be somewhere within almost every single post since I am particularly interested at this point in collecting more information on Cafasso and reporting it back to authorities. He is currently being held in Chesterton Indiana and is in JAIL. My email address is causalnexus.george@gmail.com

The most recent article that I could find about his preying on a widow is here.

Woman learns beau is apparent con artist

CHESTERTON | A 63-year-old Tefft, Ind. woman, whose son lives in Chesterton, told Chesterton police on Monday a man she met through an online dating service claimed to be Robert Stormer, but really was Joe Cafasso, a con artist of such renown he is mentioned on a Wikipedia Web page.

Chesterton police are involved in the case because they took possession of a computer the woman and her son wanted to get rid of because one of Cafasso's enemies apparently wants it.

Police reports state Cafasso took over some of the woman's finances. The investigation into Cafasso continues.

A timeline on this would be interesting to put together, I will throw some resources behind that.

This was from October of 2007. The more that comes to the light, the more interesting it gets.

He has apparently been living in Indiana with Andrea Ello for about the past year and has been very busy embezzling money from a number of parties in Indiana but extending elsewhere; even across the ocean. But his trick regarding having someone cover a hotel bill on with their credit card has repeated itself numerous times, so those who were taken on that ride can rest assured they weren't alone in that.

In some ways he is a cross between Catch Me If You Can and a "B" version movie of an aging American Gigolo who is still up to his old tricks.

Cafasso as "Dr." Gerard Pal Blackwood

Let's roll tape on the previous alias of Gerry Blackwood, which Kathryn Cramer seems to want to forget about.

This is the persona that Cramer fell for, and the persona which absconded with her laptop computer. This is the same persona Cafasso used to stroll the grounds at Columbia University and publish posts on his Stuporpatriots blog from Columbia University servers. At some point, she discovered Gerry was in fact Joe Cafasso, but before that, she was supporting the posts from the Stuporpatriots blog, and personally witnessed his publishing posts on that blog from her laptop computer.

Confidential Bio of Gerard Pal Blackwood, PhD:

Dr. Blackwood or Gerry as he likes to be called is a specialist in strategic weapons systems and issues governing nuclear non-proliferation. Gerry is a retired Lt. Colonel serving with the US Army for 26 years.

Highlights: Gerry served with the 179th Military Intelligence Brigade/MACVSOG Command Control South, SVN 1970-1972. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 1972-1980 at various overseas posts. NATO Nuclear Liaison Officer 1980-1985. After Gerry's assignment with NATO he returned to a special assignment at CIA and Center Lane. During the Gulf War Gerry was assigned as the Commander of the G2 elements for CENTCOM. Gerry completed his military career Gwith the DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) assigned to the inspectorate division and liaison with DOD/DOE NEST. Gerry retired in 1996 and worked under contract with both DOD and DOE until 2001 when he was contracted to IAEA. Gerry holds a special position with [REDACTED]

Gerry is a 1970 Graduate of Brown University receiving his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. Gerry attended Cal-Tech for both his Master in Nuclear Engineering and his Doctorate in Theoretical High Particle Physic (1989). Gerry is a licensed fixed and rotary wing pilot and avid sailor. Gerry is fluent in Russian, German, French, Italian and Vietnamese. Gerry is also a specialist in Humanitarian Operations and has been "boots down" in several hotspots providing both medical and humanitarian aid.

Gerry currently holds a DOD Top-Secret-SSBI, Yankee White, DOE Q Clearance and Cosmic Top Secret/ATOMAL (NATO)

Gerry Blackwood, PhD
LTC US Army (Ret)
Managing Director
North American LCC Group, Ltd.
POB 1201
New York, NY 10024
POC: 732-453-4647

If you know of a more detailed bio on the Cafasso Rob Stormer persona than the one published at Common Dreams (below), I would be interested in seeing it. Email me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com if you have any information.

Robert Stormer of Chicago is a retired lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve, serving with the Navy's Supervisor of Salvage, and was a specialist in weapons retrieval. He is a marine engineer and marine salvage specialist.
© 2007 Star-Telegram

And of course we have the original Cafasso resume which was also quite extensive.

Especially when you consider that Joe Cafasso was thrown out of the Army after only 44 days as unsuitable for military service.

This fraud has literally made a living from embezzling money from paramours and widows and other people, too. He somehow manages to lure people into his web with dramatic tales of heroism and military prowess (such as rescuing people from shipwrecks and in military operations). He gets raised eyebrows when he mentions being chased by 'spooks' or having to go undercover or 'disappear for while'; and no one seems to ask questions about his possessing "secret" military awards, honors and medals. If only they'd attempt to verify his tales of heroic and noble humanitarian operations as a Knight of Malta--he wouldn't succeed in scamming them to the point where their lives are left in shambles.

It is my hope that the Chesterton Police will do their due diligence in investigating the magnitude of Joe Cafasso's crimes.

confirmation in the media: Cafasso = Robert Stormer

Woman learns beau is apparent con artist

CHESTERTON | A 63-year-old Tefft, Ind. woman, whose son lives in Chesterton, told Chesterton police on Monday a man she met through an online dating service claimed to be Robert Stormer, but really was Joe Cafasso, a con artist of such renown he is mentioned on a Wikipedia Web page.

Chesterton police are involved in the case because they took possession of a computer the woman and her son wanted to get rid of because one of Cafasso's enemies apparently wants it.

Police reports state Cafasso took over some of the woman's finances. The investigation into Cafasso continues.

From here.

What's strange about that article is the fact that he committed aggravated identity theft with Robin Storm's social security number, which is a felony, and embezzlement of funds from more people than just Andrea Ello-and instead of prosecuting this fraud, they are interested in his computer and protecting him from his 'enemies'? Something isn't right here.

Are "enemies" those people who would like to see him prosecuted for a 20-year crime spree under different aliases?

Cafasso has done nothing illegal?

While Kathryn Cramer covers for Cafasso by telling people he's in jail for a traffic violation, here is the truth of the matter.

While his relationship was imploding and the repercussions of borrowing money he never intended to pay back began to inevitably unfold, Joe Cafasso as Robert Stormer elbowed his way into a situation where people began questioning just who is this character who talks into a phone he never dialed, a phone which never rang?

He was stopped and because he tried to pass himself off as a person that doesn't exist: Robert Stormer, and later was found to be using the social security number of Robin Storm, a 13-year-old from New Jersey. Cafasso apparently has people in Florida looking for him, too, such as the Coast Guard for what he tried to do after Hurricane Andrea, a giant wave and a shipwreck.

They are holding him, and for good reason. For one thing, it is illegal to lie to law enforcement about your identity, and it is a felony to use someone else's social security number, which is a form of identity theft.

Misuse of another individual's SSN is a violation of federal law and may lead to fines and/or imprisonment. And, disregarding the work authorization provisions printed on your Social Security card may be a violation of federal immigration law. Violations of applicable law regarding Social Security number fraud and misuse are serious crimes and will be prosecuted.

The following provisions of law deal directly with Social Security number fraud and misuse:

• Social Security Act: In December 1981, Congress passed a bill to amend the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 to restore minimum benefits under the Social Security Act. In addition, the Act made it a felony to
…willfully, knowingly, and with intent to deceive the Commissioner of Social Security as to his true identity (or the true identity of any other person) furnishes or causes to be furnished false information to the Commissioner of Social Security with respect to any information required by the Commissioner of Social Security in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the records provided for in section 405(c)(2) of this title.
Violators of this provision, Section 208(a)(6) of the Social Security Act, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.

• Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act: In October 1998, Congress passed the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act (Public Law 105-318) to address the problem of identity theft. Specifically, the Act made it a federal crime when anyone
…knowingly transfers or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable state or local law.

Violations of the Act are investigated by Federal investigative agencies such as the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and prosecuted by the Department of Justice.

In a sane world, that would be enough to get him put away for at least 5 years, according to what I've been able to find on social security fraud. There are ample reasons to believe that Cafasso's earned a cozy cell for himself - either in jail, or in the loony bin. I personally don't know of any people who talk into a phone that I didn't dial and that didn't ring.

Somehow, Joseph A. Cafasso puts people in a position where they run him out of town, but don't press charges; so he just goes on to the next sucker. When you're traveling across the country doing so, and the FBI and journalists have used you as a source, they won't be particularly interested in the truth coming out.

If Larry Johnson at No Quarter is contacted and informed that Robert Stormer is Joe Cafasso, do you think he'll remove the articles that Robert Stormer has written on that site? It will be interesting to see; but he's conned so many people so many times, it's amazing when you seriously take a look at the wreckage he's left behind in peoples' lives.

It is astonishing that he gets very little in terms of natural consequences for this behavior; he just moves on, and in the end, people are happy to be rid of him.

It's not illegal to find rich lonely females, and it's not illegal to borrow money from them. It's not illegal to ignore the debts and skip out, which he has done time and again, and which he's going to do this time. But it is illegal to present yourself as someone that you're not; give a name that is not legally yours, etc. - it's called FRAUD and Embezzlement if you scam someone out of their money on false pretenses.

This has been the method that works for him, and although might be embarrassing to the women he's conned, it doesn't seem to phase him at all...

There is an element of truth to every con artist's game; it's how he pulls in his potential victims.

They just need to remember that where Cafasso is concerned, it's not on the 'up and up' and someone will get hurt - because this is what he DOES. This has been his career - not rescuing people out of a C-130, no Desert Storm, no diving to recover shipwrecks, no humanitarian causes.

Joe Cafasso's cause is himself.

I am open to ideas as to what can be done, many people would like to see him thrown in jail and watch the jailer throw away the key.

Wrong picture on a dating site

Joe Cafasso put the picture at the top on this dating site, calling himself "shipdude" because he's always trolling for lonely hearts to take advantage of...and...because he didn't dare put a real picture of himself up.  If you examine it closely, it isn't his eyes, his nose, or the shape of his face.

In addition, if you examine the scuba outfit, it's the wrong helmet - the school hasn't used this helmet for a good 15 years, although-it's being used around the world right now.  The picture he's trying to pass off as himself diving is a 15 year old pic wearing a Kirby KMB-10 helmet. The one on the left is the helmet they use now.

This is a KMB57 and it's very different.Cafasso isn't as bright as he thinks; he thinks nobody is as smart as he is, so he can go into areas like this and BS his way through and no one will notice.Plus, no lonely heart is going to examine that scuba suit and think to herself...wrong suit, wrong helmet, etc...she's going to maybe wonder why he doesn't have a more flattering picture of himself up, but since he mentions that if they want to see what he really looks like he can send it to them in secret, I suppose they won't mind that he has that goofy scuba picture up.  Here's the rest of what he says about himself in that bio:

Interests: International Humanitarian Operations, Classical Music, Ball Room Dancing and just a bunch of fun....

Getting close to retirement and starting to think about why the heck i never married. Was it a blessing or curse? Lets see a liitle about me. I am 57 never anchored, about 180 pounds, blue eyes, salt and pepper hair. Enjoy cooking, reading, movies, dancing, life in general. I am a Senior Salvage Master/Master Diver. What does that mean? Well I supervise the recovery of ships (not boats but ships) that have been in accidents worldwide. The pix's here are of me diving and some of the jobs I have been on. (Want to see a pix of me without the gear? Ask me for it). Yes I have lived five lives, learned much, even speak a few languages besides english ( I laugh though because I don't speak spanish I am not considered bi-lingual) Most importantly the love that I am married to is international humanitarian relief operations. Yep got under my skin. Yes I like to travel maybe even with a new found love.

Anyway I am looking for someone simple...complex I got and the job makes complex look like a cartoon. Simple meaning someone who might be my opposite, Someone who does not surround themselves with CNN-MSNBC-FOX , politics all day, all night and even in bed. Someone who appreciates a fine dinner at home as well as going out (yeah I cook, besides having twin engineering degrees I have an associates in the culinary arts), and a quiet night with a glass of wine some music and just the two of us. Someone who is independent and secure with themselves. I can be away at sea for long periods of time. Please I am not a psychiatrist, most problems we can solve together, psychiatric cases please call 911. Someone who really understand what unconditional love means, because that is what they will get in return. Someone silly not always serious... Lawyers, Astrophysicists, Brain Surgeons and MARRIED women need not apply.

Warning: I am 50% extroverted and 50% Analytic... Meaning I can analyze and move faster than you can say your last name and I can make a New York heart attack look like a jog around the block... Every Rose has it thorns....

Profession: Senior Master Salvor

Is this hilarious to anyone else...? Yeah, some rose you got there, Joe. One stinkin' lie after another.

Andrea Ello is not missing

According to a fly on the wall.

But we will continue to try and piece this thing together.

Any information, email me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com

Looking for Andrea Ello

Looking for information such as a physical description and or perhaps a digital picture of the female companion Joe Cafasso is traveling with while he's been pretending to be Robert Stormer.

It would appear as though Andrea is named after a hurricane.

Andrea Ello is her full name, but she allegedly has sufficient identification in order to obtain money from Western Union when it's wired to Robert Stormer.

This convenience keeps Cafasso from being found out, because then he doesn't have to produce a legitimate ID and his true identity remains hidden. 

She may also be involved in some credit card fraud working in concert with Cafasso.

Email any information to causalnexus.george@gmail.com

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE SEEN HER AND CAN IDENTIFY HER.

Take this with a block of salt since it's at Larry Johnson's blog 'No Quarter' which has used Robert Stormer's writing:

Robert Stormer is Joseph Cafasso, also goes by Robin Stormer, Jay Cafasso, Gerry Blackwood, Gerard Pal Blackwood, Jay Mosca, J. Mosca, James Mosca, Joseph Mosca, Jay Anthony, Tom Adams and Jake Adams. He is a fake. He lived with his mother under she died now he lives of loney windows until he gets found out. HE IS A PROFESSIONAL CON MAN WANTED IN MANY STATES. He lived with my girlfriend and neighbor until he was arrested for impersonating and using the social security number of a 13 year old Rhode Island girl named robin Stormer. He does not have any credintials he claims. He served only 44 days in the military and was never in any positions of importance util the Fox News incident. BUT MY FRIEND, ANDREA ELLO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR WEEKS EVER SINCE HE WAS ARRESTED AND SHE FOUND OUT ABOUT HIS CON-ARTIST WAYS. Co-incidently he disappeared at the same time. I am so worried about her!

There are a lot of questions that need to be answered here, especially if there is a missing girl who was involved and linked with Cafasso before her disappearance.

To my understanding, however, Cafasso was only arrested and jailed on the 30th...so...this leads one to believe there is more than meets the eye regarding his brush with the law in Indiana.

Do you have information?  I will hold it in confidence.  Email causalnexus.george@gmail.com

That information proved to be false.  Andrea Ello is a victim of Joe Cafasso's and is not in cohoots with him.  He bilked her out of her life's savings.

And SHE IS NOT MISSING.

From a fly on the wall

Literally, on the Covington audio post below; in comments from "a fly on the wall".

Joe Cafasso is in a Chesterton, Indiana jail as of 1/30/09.

It is time to place some calls.

***

Update: Verified.  Porter County, $500 bond for failure to appear.

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New comment (can't find the post it's on):

just thought you might find it interesting to know that joseph cafasso a.k.a. rob stormer as we all knew him has been arrested in north west indiana. He put another wokkman into extreme debt and she is now losing her house and he was using a young girl from new jerseys social security number while here.

Important: If you have any other information please email it to me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com; if he can con someone into bailing him out of jail, he will just turn around and do it again.

We hope to stop him from doing this anymore.  We are not law enforcement, but a collection of individuals who are fed up with his antics and preying on women.

Letter to Donald Covington, president, the Piano Store

Regarding Scott Covington fraudulently obtaining a credit report on Larry Sinclair, the letter at this link was sent to Covington's father who is reportedly the president of the Piano Store.   How the autotrack information fits into the story is something of incredible interest to this writer.  This methodology and associated story is somehow hauntingly familiar, although it is alleged by Mr. Sinclair that drugs are moving via UPS and Fed Ex in and out of the store.

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter aka Carl Rockefeller

Carl Rockefeller may have been captured after having "kidnapped" his own little girl, but the story behind the face is what is intriguing.

Joe Cafasso may have attempted to rub elbows with the rich and famous in much the same way as Gerhartsreiter, but at least his aliases were in keeping with his italian heritage.

Gerhartsreiter, by contrast, pretended to be a distant relative of the Rockefeller family. He married under that pretense, and divorced when his wife began to suspect that his story was not true.

Love is blind, so they say. And Cafasso knows that to be true, as he's infamous for proposing marriage to unsuspecting spinsters while he lays designs on their nest eggs.

Gerhartsreiter had been a 'stay-at-home dad', living in his wife's $2 million brownstone. Not a bad job if you can get it!

But that is just the tip of the iceberg; because after he left Germany, and had gone to school just long enough to get some level of English proficiency, he found his way to the US and found ways to take advantage of people.

Steve Savio, 39, said his mother answered a classified ad in the Journal-Register newspaper from a teen calling himself a German exchange student. He recalled Gerhartsreiter, who slept on their couch before moving into their basement, as a high-maintenance house guest.

“He was mad at us because we made him do his own laundry,” Savio said. “He was expecting to be served.”

He is wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple, Sohus. He was apparently staying in their guest house under another alias, Christopher Chichester. As it turns out, Chichester was one of many aliases Gerhartsreiter used in his 30-year odyssey.

In 1979, Gerhartsreiter moved in with the Savios family (in Connecticut) and attended Berlin High School as a foreign exchange student. The family said they knew the "snotty" student as Christian Gerhart Reiter. Gerhartsreiter moved to Wisconsin, where he married 22-year-old Amy Jersild on Feb. 20, 1981.

He disappeared the next day, with his new green card in hand.

This was a telling little tidbit:

Chichester soon after left the Savios' house and moved in with a librarian, who asked not to be named.

"He was a con artist," she said. "He thought he was better than everyone else. But he was not self-assured. He was an insecure young man."

Aren't they all.

Gerhatsreiter resurfaced in California around 1985 - this time as Christopher Chichester, a name he seemed to have borrowed from a high school science teacher. Friends and neighbors in California remember a man who tried to cozy up to the high-society crowd in San Marino but never quite fit in.

"I have a feeling he was looking for somebody to victimize so he could just take the money and run," said Carole Iliff, 69, who said Chichester tried to con her late husband out of $1,200.

Chichester rented the guest house of Jonathan and Linda Sohus in San Marino, Calif. The couple mysteriously vanished that year. Jonathan Sohus' remains were found nine years later buried in his back yard.

When cops came to question Chichester he was nowhere to be found. Gerhartsreiter's lawyer said his client recalls being in California but doesn't remember living with the couple and denies any involvement in their disappearance.

In the late 1980s, at some point, he adopted yet another identity - Christopher Crow - and worked for banks, including Credit Suisse, according to a co-worker who worked with him who wanted to remain anonymous. "This guy clearly is a wacko," the former co-worker told The News.

Gerhartsreiter, 47, then pulled off his biggest con of all, marrying executive Sandra Boss in Nantucket in 1995.

They spent some time in New York, moved into a $2 million townhouse in Boston and had Reigh in 2001. The couple divorced in 2007 and Boss, 41, gained full custody of "Snooks."

Another "Catch me if you can" fellow, only he claims to have amnesia or some such rot.

There are numerous parallels here to our Joseph Anthony Cafasso, the original two-bit conman, aka the Carteret Con Artist, including Gerhartsreiter's owning a boat at the marina. He just had it there so he could talk it up, apparently - he never took it out. And the story the FBI used in order to draw him out of the sparsely furnished apartment he was staying in with his kidnapped daughter - was that his boat was taking on water.

Unfortunately, Cafasso, who said he had a Clipper Ship at Bannister's Wharf, didn't even have a rowboat there.

What is absolutely fantastic is the french connection. (There seems to be a consistent theme here!) Cafasso claimed to have a home in France, Scott Covington claims to be jewish and french (what a joke!), and Jonathan and Lynda Sohus supposedly sent a postcard from France after they disappeared.

Cafasso and France

I'll have to go through my archives, because there is a considerable body of information here - but it was just brought to my attention that Cafasso has claimed in the past to have another home in FRANCE.

We have been on a long quest to find this abuser of women; the man who skips out on his child support payments and has pretended to be a Lt. Col. when he was actually thrown out of the army, like Jesse MacBeth, after only 44 days of service as being 'insuitable'.  

Remember, too, that this man is so desperate for attention he has announced in front of groups of people that he killed a child when he was in Vietnam...only he was never in Vietnam.

Habitual pathological liars tend to find a) people like them, or b) people as prey.

It would seem to me - if this unholy alliance is in fact real, that Covington the felony larcenist and scammer, has teamed up with Cafasso the experienced con artist.

That's the theory we've come up with....but we'll have to watch and learn to see if Covington and the others over at the Mitch and Nan Show have been taken in by a guy who has many email addresses under numerous names and has even been known to tip himself off as another person and forward the emails he's sent to himself as evidence of complete fantasies he's cooked up in Jersey.

Cramer was bamboozled by the guy; and many others have been.  So why not the Obama camp?  He would fit right in.

con artists banding together?

The Mitch and Nan Show used information from Stuporpatriots that had been taken down by blogger-but reappeared on a blog post at Stuporpatriots about Pelton's ridiculous book, "License to Kill"-- in order to intimidate Cao of Cao's blog.

Cafasso would rather beat women than fight like a man.  Judging from the phone call that Covington made to Larry Sinclair's mother in an attempt to extort money, it would appear they have a lot in common.

We've seen this before.  It's the same approach that was taken in the past, and it's interesting that Cafasso is so intent on recycling that information.  He may be laughing about the stupidity of the world with his disappearing act, but he's leaving a trail, nevertheless.

We've seen the same presentation on the posts, too.

The Mitch and Nan Show reminds us of Stuporpatriots for a number of reasons.

Take a look at these comparisons, from 10-31 and YWN.

The truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction, and in Cafasso's story, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he's somehow managed to have his way with these people - even using another alias.