Inmate Said to Use ‘Reno Letter’ to Seek Release
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NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey inmate was indicted Thursday for impersonating Atty. Gen. Janet Reno in a letter, created on a prison computer, asking for his immediate release.
Erwin Koti, who was serving a 24-month sentence for bank fraud at the Fort Dix federal prison, composed the letter on a prison education department computer available to all inmates, and affixed a signature purporting to be Reno’s, U.S. Atty. Faith Hochberg said.
The November 1998 letter, which was directed to a unit manager at Fort Dix, asserted that all criminal charges against Koti had been dropped.
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