A convicted con artist formerly of Pittsburgh with a propensity for writing frivolous civil suits is believed to have filed an apparently fake motion in Manhattan federal court to dismiss charges against Bernie Madoff, the jailed and infamous Ponzi scheme mastermind. The bizarre, rambling legal document purportedly filed by “Frederick Banks, The Litigator Legal Assistant,” includes numerous misspellings and handwritten scrawl that alleges the “CIA Office of Science and Technology used bio-electric sensors and subcranial voice to skull technology to influence the court.” U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin, who as a U.S. District judge sentenced Madoff to 150 years in prison in 2009, ruled the “defendant’s argument is meritless” in an order made public Wednesday alongside the motion mailed to the court. More on Bloomberg here.
