New York State's Attorney General announced today that a man named Newman was busted for committing architecture fraud in an investigation called Operation Vandelay Industries, a 100% true sentence you just read today on April 20, 2017.

I'm indicting alleged fake architect Paul Newman on 58 counts as a result of our "Operation Vandelay Industries." pic.twitter.com/8cfn6zQIGk — Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) April 20, 2017

In an event that actually happened, Eric Schneiderman announced that Paul J. Newman was hit with 58 counts including fraud, larceny, and unlicensed practice of architecture for illegally submitting "architectural renderings for over 100 properties in Albany, Rensselaer, and Saratoga Counties."

According to the Attorney General's office, Newman was not in fact an architect, despite allegedly presenting himself as one between 2010 and 2015. In that time, Newman's Cohesion Studios, Inc. of which he was the president and sole employee, was contracted for 6 architectural jobs around the Capital Region, including townhouses, senior living communities and a multifamily apartment building. Newman was paid tens of thousands of dollars for these jobs, despite being as much of an architect as I am an acrobat.

Newman allegedly worked at it, however, going as far as creating a fake Registered Architect Stamp using the license number of a real professional architect, and taking the Professional Engineer Stamp from an engineer he once worked with, allegedly placing a copy of it with a forged signature on over 1,000 pages of building plans for the projects he worked on.

Attorney General Schneiderman insisted on dunking on Newman on Twitter in not just the above tweet, but also a second one:

"You know I always wanted to pretend I was an architect" is best left for TV. This is a serious crime. https://t.co/Ygcohel2oX pic.twitter.com/NfUMODe9en — Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) April 20, 2017

"This is a serious crime," the Attorney General reminded a giggling city full of mysteriously hungry people who were too busy going over their favorite Seinfeld references to check to see if their buildings had been designed by a real architect or just another Costanza.