Career con artist tries to go legit....maybe.
Fred Brito is The Man. The Man indeed. After spend almost all of his 49 years of life as a top-notch con artist, he may be ready to call it quits and go straight. Fred has had multiple aliases but the one that stood out to me was that "he once convinced a judge he was a psychiatrist in order to testify in a friend's criminal trial." If I had a friend like that, maybe I wouldn't have gotten busted for that 1/8 of pot in the 11th grade. Let's not forget the fact that Fred is a 5 time convicted felon and for the most part, Fred scammed his way into jobs in which he'd be able to help people. Don'tcha just love a criminal with a heart?
What's worse is that UCLA (full disclosure: my alma mater) paid a recruiting firm 10K to find him. According to Fred, "God came to heal sinners, not perfect people, and I am one of them,". Amen.
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What's worse is that UCLA (full disclosure: my alma mater) paid a recruiting firm 10K to find him. According to Fred, "God came to heal sinners, not perfect people, and I am one of them,". Amen.
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posted by Ms X at 1:01 PM
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My name is Fred Brito. I am the subject of the of the Los Angeles Times Column One Story of 8/17/05.
While I know many people will have their doubts about this story, I can say that it is accurate. However, the Times Editors left the most important part on the editing room floor.
In a nutshell... 70 thousand inmates are parole or released from U.S. prisons each and every day. Some have dreams and hopes of coming home and reconnecting to society in the right way. Some have families, children and like me, I have ailing parents that I am responsible to ensure that they have what they need.
However, when a person with a criminal record like myself engages in seeking employment, society is not very receptive. After a while of looking for an honest job and having the door slammed in your face, the writing on the wall becomes larger than life.
In most cases ex-cons who have had no success in seeking a job will become frustrated and give up. The next step is what returns them to prison. Lost hopes and lost dreams turn an ex-con back to old familiar ways. Crime.
In my case I chose NOT to revert to further crimes. By creating a false resume, I was able to get some of this country’s best high-level position that paid well over $100,000. per year. While I worked hard and in many cases moved the organization from the red to the black, I was never fired for doing my job. Only for getting the job in the first place by providing a doctored resume.
I chose not to become homeless, or a burden to society. I chose to work. If society would not hire me because I have a criminal record, I did what I had to do to survive. And that is what this is all about... SURVIVAL.
Society feels that I was wrong to get so many well paying jobs by providing a doctored resume. But society is also failing to give people like me a chance to rebuild our lives and become a contributing member of society.
If you think about it.... the national crime is raising in part because ex-felons commit 68% of the crimes. Why? because society won't give us a chance. So it is clear to me that if society is complaining about the high crime rate and the high cost of incarcerating criminals in prisons, then maybe we need to rethink what we can do as people to give people like me a chance instead of slamming the door in our faces when we try our best to seek a job.
Granted, not all ex-felons are focused on getting a job... but I assure you, 50% of us are.
So really it is up to you Mr. Mrs. Society. I came out with my story to not only unmask myself, but to also explain that society does share a responsibility to be less judgmental and more open to giving people a chance.
When the judge sentenced me, I was not sentenced to a lifetime of living on the street, or begging once released from prison. I paid my debt to society... now I just want to get a job like everyone else.
I have great talent and many skills. I have proved this by being so successful in many of the jobs that I have held.
My story is about a man who screwed his life up pretty good. But now wants to get his life back on the right track. I know that I have to earn your trust and respect... but how long do I have to kiss the feet of society before I am given a chance. Until that happens, I will do what I can to bring awareness to this national tragedy. Maybe I have found my true calling. If so, I will become a vibrant advocate for change, and I have the energy to do it too.
Media Update:
You can see more of my story in many upcoming National television News Magazines shows on CBS, NBC and ABC now in production.
In addition to a number of newspaper interviews from national press agencies across America and the UK.
If you would like more information, you can contact me at: federiqkoe@gmail.com
Thanks,
Fred Brito
While I know many people will have their doubts about this story, I can say that it is accurate. However, the Times Editors left the most important part on the editing room floor.
In a nutshell... 70 thousand inmates are parole or released from U.S. prisons each and every day. Some have dreams and hopes of coming home and reconnecting to society in the right way. Some have families, children and like me, I have ailing parents that I am responsible to ensure that they have what they need.
However, when a person with a criminal record like myself engages in seeking employment, society is not very receptive. After a while of looking for an honest job and having the door slammed in your face, the writing on the wall becomes larger than life.
In most cases ex-cons who have had no success in seeking a job will become frustrated and give up. The next step is what returns them to prison. Lost hopes and lost dreams turn an ex-con back to old familiar ways. Crime.
In my case I chose NOT to revert to further crimes. By creating a false resume, I was able to get some of this country’s best high-level position that paid well over $100,000. per year. While I worked hard and in many cases moved the organization from the red to the black, I was never fired for doing my job. Only for getting the job in the first place by providing a doctored resume.
I chose not to become homeless, or a burden to society. I chose to work. If society would not hire me because I have a criminal record, I did what I had to do to survive. And that is what this is all about... SURVIVAL.
Society feels that I was wrong to get so many well paying jobs by providing a doctored resume. But society is also failing to give people like me a chance to rebuild our lives and become a contributing member of society.
If you think about it.... the national crime is raising in part because ex-felons commit 68% of the crimes. Why? because society won't give us a chance. So it is clear to me that if society is complaining about the high crime rate and the high cost of incarcerating criminals in prisons, then maybe we need to rethink what we can do as people to give people like me a chance instead of slamming the door in our faces when we try our best to seek a job.
Granted, not all ex-felons are focused on getting a job... but I assure you, 50% of us are.
So really it is up to you Mr. Mrs. Society. I came out with my story to not only unmask myself, but to also explain that society does share a responsibility to be less judgmental and more open to giving people a chance.
When the judge sentenced me, I was not sentenced to a lifetime of living on the street, or begging once released from prison. I paid my debt to society... now I just want to get a job like everyone else.
I have great talent and many skills. I have proved this by being so successful in many of the jobs that I have held.
My story is about a man who screwed his life up pretty good. But now wants to get his life back on the right track. I know that I have to earn your trust and respect... but how long do I have to kiss the feet of society before I am given a chance. Until that happens, I will do what I can to bring awareness to this national tragedy. Maybe I have found my true calling. If so, I will become a vibrant advocate for change, and I have the energy to do it too.
Media Update:
You can see more of my story in many upcoming National television News Magazines shows on CBS, NBC and ABC now in production.
In addition to a number of newspaper interviews from national press agencies across America and the UK.
If you would like more information, you can contact me at: federiqkoe@gmail.com
Thanks,
Fred Brito
# posted by 
: 5:33 PM, August 20, 2005
: 5:33 PM, August 20, 2005
PLEASE don’t believe anything you read hear about this "conman with a heart," Fredd's latest scam or continue to allow him to promote himself and his career of lies. As he claims to want to begin anew, e continues to pawn himself off as other personalities with new names on the online Yahoo lists in Northeast Los Angeles where he lives — “Gabriel Hayes”, “Harrison Winslow”, “Fred Brito-Gomez” and on and on.
On that same list just this week it was revealed that he has a 25-year-history as a sexual predator of underage males, the most recent attempt just last month in this same area of Los Angeles, he suggested he would “mentor” a 16-year-old, until his parents threatened legal remedies.
LIES is the right name for this site, if you allow him to seek new victims here.
Visit this moderated list, for proof of the above:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NortheastLA/
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On that same list just this week it was revealed that he has a 25-year-history as a sexual predator of underage males, the most recent attempt just last month in this same area of Los Angeles, he suggested he would “mentor” a 16-year-old, until his parents threatened legal remedies.
LIES is the right name for this site, if you allow him to seek new victims here.
Visit this moderated list, for proof of the above:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NortheastLA/
# posted by : 5:31 AM, August 21, 2005
: 5:31 AM, August 21, 2005
