Twitter impersonator of Trump family members arrested for fraud

Hall faces as long as 20 years in prison if convicted of the wire fraud charge and a mandatory two-year sentence if found guilty of aggravated ID theft. — AFP

The law finally caught up with a 22-year-old who raised thousands of dollars for a phony political organisation by impersonating family members of then-President Donald J. Trump on social media sites.

Joshua Hall, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with wire fraud and identity theft for getting hundreds of people to send him money for the political group, supposedly for the purpose of getting Trump re-elected. Federal prosecutors in New York claim Hall used the money for personal expenses.