He claimed access to $55 billion. Prosecutors say Charles Cole had none of it, yet still collected 239 million shares before the fraud unraveled
Charles Cole, a 57-year-old from Mooresville, North Carolina, told executives at a technology company he could deliver $55 billion in funding. Federal prosecutors say none of that money existed. Before the deception collapsed, Cole had already collected at least 239 million shares of Infinite Reality, a firm now known as Napster, and used those shares…