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A high-flying California man claiming to be a CIA operative drained at least two women’s bank accounts and maxed out their credit cards in the name of “national security,” spending more than $125,000 of their money on Ubers, booze, and fancy meals, according to the FBI.
Kiernan Michael Major, 26, used a CIA email address and told the women he lived under multiple aliases “due to his top secret work with the government,” states a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday and obtained first by The Daily Beast.
Major insisted he couldn’t spend his own funds so as not to leave a paper trail that could potentially be exploited by hostile intelligence services, the complaint explains, adding that when the alleged con was exposed, Major began contacting both women up to 1,000 times a day, threatening to kill them, their loved ones, and himself.
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