InstaBrag Danielle Miller is an
Instagram influencer with a large following. She’s known for her glamorous, jet-setting
lifestyle. She posted photos at luxury California hotels and on first-class international flights.
But Miller’s utopia came to a screeching halt when she was arrested on charges of wire fraud.
She was accused of stealing the identity of a Massachusetts resident to open a bank account and
apply for a Covid-19 small business relief loan worth more than $100,000. She used this money,
which was intended for struggling businesses during the pandemic, to fund her expensive habits.
Court documents showed that she charged her $5,000 luxury hotel bill from the Petit Ermitage to the
fraudulent bank account and then posted a photo with a geotag for the location.
Prosecutors took Miller’s Instagram photos, which she once used for likes and attention,
and used them against her–proving how she used the money for the wrong reasons.
If convicted, Miller faces a $250,000 fine and up to 20 years in prison. But this isn’t
the first time she’s gotten into trouble for scamming. And it certainly won’t be the last.
Danielle Miller Miller comes from wealthy Manhattan parents and
grew up in an apartment next to the Ritz-Carlton overlooking Central Park. Her father, Michael
Miller, was a real estate attorney and former president of the New York State Bar Association.
Her mother was a Rockette for 20 years before she became a full-time stay-at-home mom.
Miller first realized her love for attention at the prestigious Horace Mann School.
It was 2004, Miller was in the eighth grade, when her crush dared her via AOL instant
messenger to prove she wasn’t “prude.” She grabbed her Swiffer mop and pressed record.
She sent three videos to the boy, who sent them to his best friend.
Soon enough, the entire school had seen the videos and Miller had a new nickname, “Swiffer Girl.”
She had attended Horace Mann since she was two years old.
But it took only a few seconds of video footage to completely change her reputation.
People whispered about her. Parents told their children not to invite her over. Miller was
so embarrassed that she stayed home for a week and debated switching schools. But she didn’t.
By ninth grade, Miller decided to ditch her nice, quiet girl identity and embrace her
new reputation. She got a fake ID and started drinking and partying. Miller
remembers herself as Horace Mann’s “it girl.” For her sweet 16, her parents threw her a huge
party and hired a Rod Stewart impersonator to sing “Hot Legs.” Miller’s friends said
she tried to pass him off as the real Rod Stewart, which she denies. Another friend
claimed Miller lied about her father owning their apartment building. Her friends quickly
caught on to her constant lies. Miller even admitted it. And this was just the beginning.
Westward Desperate to escape
the reputation that followed her through high school, she moved across the country for college,
enrolling at Arizona State University. When she told people she went to Horace Mann, they asked if
she knew “Swiffer Girl.” A fraternity brother told the entire school about her in a university-wide
email. Someone shoved a letter under her dorm room door, saying that they know about her past.
She graduated from ASU in 2012 and moved to Los Angeles, living at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel in a pool cabana suite and working various PR jobs. She started dating
a rich DJ and mingling with celebrities like Paris Hilton, David Arquette, Pharell,
and Skrillex. By 2013, Miller found herself with a new group of friends,
including socialite Quentin Esme Brown. Brown climbed up the fame ladder herself, marrying
reality tv star P.C. Peterson, the grandson of the founder of the private-equity firm,
Blackstone. At their Las Vegas wedding, Tiffany Trump was their flower girl.
One day, Brown got an angry phone call from her mother about a $20,000 credit card bill.
Brown went to the bank and asked them to print out all of the checks written from her account
in the past month. Five of the checks were made out to Danielle Miller. Brown’s mother called
Miller’s father, who cut her off from any further financial support and returned her leased Mercedes
to the dealership. Still, she continued spending wildly on designer bags and expensive dinners.
Law Intern Hoping to get
her life back on track, Miller applied and was accepted to Pepperdine University Law School in
2016. The summer after her first year, she moved to New York City where she secured an
internship with a family friend and New York justice. She was good at the job,
but continued her spending habits. She used stolen credit card information to go to the
Body Factory Salon on the Upper West Side. When the credit card was reported twice for fraud, the
spa noticed. When she went back to New York for Thanksgiving and booked an appointment at the spa,
she was met by the police. She was charged with identity theft and grand larceny. Miller tried
to sweet talk the arresting officer, saying that her father is the head of the bar association,
she was interning for a judge, and she hadn’t even made the appointments herself–her assistant
did. It didn’t work. Her connections did help at court, but her law career was put on hold.
At this point, her father said that he didn’t want any contact with his daughter
anymore. Her mother said she still wanted a relationship, but cut her off soon after.
Mackinzie Dae In California,
Miller met Mackinzie Dae, a model and Marine veteran working in marketing. He saw Miller’s
potential as a clever marketer and they decided to launch a PR firm together. Dae
thought Miller’s father was financially supporting her the whole time. When Dae
wanted to end the partnership, Miller tried to stop him by saying she was suicidal. Dae
called the police who brought her to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
He was able to get into her email account and discovered that she opened several credit cards
and took out business loans in his name. Miller denied the loans, and insisted that she and Dae
took out the credit cards together. She stole nearly $200,000 from him and their friend. To
this day, Miller continues to deny it. After serving as a marine in two wars,
Dae still calls his experience with Miller one of the most “insane” he’s ever had.
A few months later, she was arrested at the San Diego- Mexico border after a birthday trip with
friends. She missed a court appearance in New York for the fraudulent spa charges and was picked up
on a warrant. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year at Rikers Island. At Rikers, she met
Ciera Blas, another scammer who was in jail for violating parole after being convicted of identity
theft. Blas was first arrested at Bergdorf Goodman in 2015 for stealing people’s credit card
information to go on a $20,000 shopping spree. Miller and Blas became fast friends in jail.
In 2020, when Miller ran into Blas at a restaurant in Manhattan’s Upper East Side,
they devised a plan. Miller would be the “trapper” and take on the persona of a stolen identity while
Blas did more of the behind the scenes work. During covid, they flew to Miami and rented
a two-bedroom apartment. They went on joyrides in Rolls-Royces and shopping sprees at Balmain
and Gucci. That spring, when stores started opening again, Miller tried to withdraw $8,000
from a woman’s bank account, which triggered Chase Bank to call 911. Miller and Blas were
arrested in possession with three fake driver’s licenses and credit cards, six cell phones,
and $25,000 cash. They pleaded not guilty. Miller went back to prison for the second time that year.
SBA Loans Blas bailed Miller out of jail and
she quickly got to work on a new scam. This time she targeted the federal government. She hacked
into the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to steal 27 identities. Then, she used people’s
information to apply for ten loans from the Small Business Association including the Economic Injury
Disaster Loan. Several applications were denied, but one of them was successful. The federal
government deposited $125,000 into a bank account Miller opened in another
person’s name. Over the next eight months, Miller received four more loans worth nearly $1 million.
She used another stolen identity to
defraud Arizona out of more than $6,000 in unemployment benefits.
Natural Born Miller saw the
covid pandemic as an opportunity to kick her scamming expertise into motion. She denies
learning any of her skills at Rikers. Instead, she did some Internet searching and downloaded
Telegram to join group chats that discussed where to find people’s personal information. One time,
she challenged herself to find Warren Buffett’s social security number. She found it quickly.
Miami Nights Using the money
she secured through SBA loans, Miller led the extravagant lifestyle she craved. She
bragged about her Chanel, Gucci, and Prada outfits on Instagram. She booked
private jets from Miami to LA and where she spent nearly $6,000 at the Petit Ermitage,
ate expensive dinners at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and drove a Rolls-Royce down the streets.
In Miami, she rented a swank, white, marble-clad apartment under one of her
victim’s names. According to Miller, she paid for everything with her own money
and received DMs from scammers around the world begging to work with her.
BBL In May 2021, Miller got a Brazilian
butt lift surgery and was recovering in the comfort of her Miami apartment with two private
nurses and an Oxycontin prescription. One day, she received a phone call from the front desk asking
her to report to the front lobby. She opened her front door and federal agents busted inside.
In Miller’s apartment, agents discovered a Rolex, Dior blouse and shoes, Louis Vuitton bag,
and Rimowa luggage–believed to be purchased with the SBA loan money. They seized $4,000 cash,
$28,000 worth of money orders, several fake IDs and bank cards. On one of her iPhones, feds found
emails between Miller (posing as someone else) and Chime Financial saying that she was “in tears”
over her money being held hostage by the bank. She tried to book a private flight under someone
else’s name, but the company sent federal agents a photo of the license Miller used to book the
reservation. The ID was a Massachusetts driver’s license with Miller’s picture and someone else’s
name. More incriminating evidence came from ATM security footage that showed a mask covering much
of her face, but the signature wishbone necklace gave her away. Authorities also connected her to
a zipcar that Miller rented with yet another fake ID. In the car, agents found a government document
with the name “Danielle Miller” on it. So far, feds have seized more than $600,000 from Miller.
Attention While on house arrest
awaiting trial, Miller decided to occupy her time with social media’s newest trend,
TikTok. She uses TikTok to show off her life, against the advice of her probation officer.
Despite being locked inside, Miller found new ways to draw attention to herself. One article
from Model on A Mission Magazine calls Miller an entrepreneur and philanthropist who started
an organization to raise money for orphaned children in Botswana and supports Miley Cyrus’s
Happy Hippie Foundation and Pepperdine’s Micro-enterprise Program. But this article,
which is full of praise, is likely a paid post written by Miller herself.
Unknown to many of her Tiktok subscribers and magazine readers,
Miller is actually sitting at home all day with a bulky, black tracking monitor on her ankle.
Today In May 2021, Danielle was arrested and indicted
on three counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft. Each charge of wire
fraud carries a possible 20 year prison sentence, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000
fine. The aggravated identity theft charges each carry a mandatory two year prison sentence,
one year of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. She pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Despite all of her scamming, Miller seems to be in dire need of cash. She posted on Facebook about an
open room in her Greenwich Village three-bedroom apartment for $1,200 per month. She offered to
lease the place on a month-to-month basis with no credit or background check required. But instead
of being intrigued by the beautiful apartment, commenters seemed to be more interested in the
opportunity to live with scammer extraordinaire and Swiffer Girl, the Danielle Miller.
In late October of 2022, Danielle was sentenced to five years in prison for a separate charge of
bank fraud in Florida. Her case was heard in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court in Sarasota,
where Judge Thomas Krug gave her the max sentence.
She still faces trial in late November of 2022 for her pandemic loan related charges!
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