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ANGLERPHISH

dler had one more trick up his sleeve. Two weeks later he managed to get his bond reinstated, bailed from the detention center, and promptly vanished.

Anglerphish was a debacle. After 1,500 hours of work, the government was left with a fugitive informant and tens of thousands of dollars in new fraud. There was only one silver lining: that first batch of twenty-nine platinum dumps Johnson had bought in May for $600.

The Secret Service had tracked some of the cards to a pizza parlor in Vancouver—a dead end. But the corporate Bank of America account the seller used to accept his payment belonged to one John Giannone, a twenty-one-year-old living in Rockville Centre on Long Island.