Remember the Palm Beach fake teen doctor? Well, he’s now just another Florida con man
Less than six months after West Palm Beach’s Malachi Love-Robinson finished his prison sentence for, among other things, masquerading as a doctor while being just an 18-year-old — he got caught being a basic embezzler of less than $10,000.
After being sentenced last week, he’s returning to prison merely three years after he got out.
Love-Robinson’s 2020 scheme stole $9,430 from his employer. Love-Robinson’s guilty plea to one count of organized scheme to defraud and one count of grand theft earned him up to two years and four months in prison followed by two years or probation. Though he’d done his prison time from his previous shenanigans, Love-Robinson was still on probation until May 22, 2027 from a forgery charge.
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Love-Robinson rerouted shipping costs
Love-Robinson was released from a Florida prison on Sept. 23, 2019. After giving an undercover cop a medical exam and advice at New Birth New Life Medical Center in 2016, he got busted as practicing medicine without a license, fraudulent use of personal identification, grand theft, depositing a check with intent to defraud (bouncing a check to a Delray Beach Mazda dealer).
Soon after his release, a probable cause affidavit says Malachi Alexander Love-Robinson got work as a contract employee under the name “Alexander Robinson” with United States of Freight, a shipping broker. Shipping brokers connect their clients, companies that need things shipped, with companies who do the shipping. The customer pays the shipping broker, which retains a broker’s fee. The contract employee who makes the sale gets a commission.
But Love-Robinson told one customer to wire a $2,675 payment to a SunTrust account for National Logistics Division, a company state registration records say is operated out of 623 Evergreen Dr. (Love-Robinson’s home address) with Alexander Robinson as agent and CEO and Malachi A.L. Robinson as manager.
Four other clients were told to send $6,755 in payments via Paypal or Venmo to accounts with Love-Robinson’s name and address.
The probable cause affidavit says while Love-Robinson avoided West Palm Beach detectives, the fraudster texted United States of Freight owner Daniel O’Sullivan, who contacted police March 6, 2020. O’Sullivan showed police text messages of Love-Robinson claiming he “can’t say how truly sorry he is,” was “doing everything he could to make it right” and “I don’t want to go to jail.”
This story was originally published January 4, 2023 at 3:57 PM.
