Notorious Miami Con Man Argues He Is The Most Restricted Prisoner In America

By Jim DeFede, CBS Miami

January 31, 2023

On the twelfth floor of the James Lawrence King Federal Justice Building in downtown Miami, three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals recently heard arguments in a case involving notorious conman James Sabatino.

The 46-year-old's crimes date back decades. When he was 18 he called the local Fed Ex station in Broward County and convinced them he was the president of the Miami Dolphins and needed to retrieve two crates of envelopes the Dolphins had just shipped. Sabatino ended up with $268,000 worth of Super Bowl tickets. He got two years for that crime.

In the Nineties, in a scene out of the movie Catch Me If You Can, Sabatino conned airlines and hotels around the world that he was a music industry executive in order to travel from Europe to Asia and back again.

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