Four months after Raymond "Ray" Reggie was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale, Louisiana, Dr. Carl Bernofsky received the first of several emails from a David Skinner, who introduced himself as a Washington, DC journalist and claimed to be in New Orleans with another writer to find out as much as he could about Ray Reggie.  Skinner and Bernofsky exchanged a number of emails in 2007 until Skinner broke off correspondence.

David Skinner re-emerged about five weeks after the death of Ray Reggie's brother-in-law, Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy, and speculation that Kennedy's wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, might be considered for the senator's seat.  This time, Skinner's emails were less friendly and consisted of invitations to sites capable of installing computer viruses and other types of malware.  When Bernofsky was later informed of the true identity of David Skinner by a third party who knew who he really was [1], he understood that he had been communicating with none other than Ray Reggie all along.  Bernofsky had been completely taken-in by this clever imposter.  The exchange of emails is reprinted below.*

In a privileged communication of 11/9/2009 that followed the above email, "David Skinner" was positively identifed as Ray Reggie.  Furthermore, communication with a real, Washington, DC journalist named David Skinner indicated that Bernofsky and Reggie were wholly unknown to him.

Following the last exchange of emails with "David Skinner," Bernofsky searched for information about the "mygallerybuilder" Web site on Google and discovered that Google had identified that site as one that has been used to send emails containing malicious software code.  From that, and other information [1], the intent of Ray Reggie to cause harm seemed clear.

After his release from prison, Ray Reggie moved to New Orleans and became a managing partner of Premier Promotions [2], a division of the Premier Automotive Group which owns and operates Toyota of New Orleans, Premier Honda, Premier Nissan of Metairie and Premier Kia of Kenner, Louisiana [3].

On December 13th 2009, from a crowded in-box, Bernofsky inadvertently opened a malicious email from an unknown sender that triggered the immediate loss of all email service, the first such successful attack ever.  Three days later, with the assistance of professional help, email service was restored; however, several months of correspondence files had been permanently lost.

On Monday, January 4th 2010, Ray Reggie telephoned Bernofsky from an attorney's office to demand that the former version of this page be immediately removed from this Web site.  He claimed that 75-80% of the information was incorrect, and that the dates were wrong.  For example, he could not have sent the March 31st 2007 email because he was in a hospital, recovering from brain surgery on March 30th, 2007.

He warned that he will get a restraining order to "take down" this page, and he reminded Bernofsky on several occasions that he knew exactly where he lived and would "see to it" that this page is removed.

Reggie correctly identified the individual [1] who exposed "David Skinner's" identity to Bernofsky, and stated that he was in litigation with the family of that person, which had caused him endless grief.

Bernofsky repeatedly responded that he would correct any misinformation that had been posted, and he urged Reggie to send him evidence about information that he believed was incorrect.  On January 6, 2010, Bernofsky mailed Reggie authentic copies of his email correspondence with "David Skinner" in response to his threat to subpoena those documents.