John Donald Cody | |
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| Born | August 3, 1947 |
| Other names | Bobby Thompson, among many others |
| Occupation(s) | Attorney (disbarred), Former U.S. Army intelligence officer |
| Criminal status | Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction #A651040, incarcerated at Richland Correctional Institution, Mansfield, Ohio; earliest release date April 27, 2039 |
| Conviction(s) | November 14, 2013 |
| Criminal charge | Larceny, money laundering, identity fraud, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, tampering with records |
| Penalty | 28 years in prison (with 28 days to be served in solitary confinement), $6.3 million fine (one year of sentence and solitary confinement requirement vacated on June 12, 2015) |
John Donald Cody is a convicted felon who perpetrated several fraudulent activities across the United States since the 1980s. He disappeared from his law practice in Arizona in 1984 after investigators began looking into his activities, suspecting the theft of client funds. In the 2000s, using the alias Bobby Thompson, he ran a fraudulent charity named the United States Navy Veterans Association from Florida. After evading authorities for two years, he was arrested in 2012 on charges associated with fraud and identify theft and ultimately convicted, receiving a sentence of 28 years of prison.