A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Brandon Dae Up Kiehm, 45, accusing him of stealing roughly $272,000 from a woman he met on the dating app Bumble in what prosecutors described as a “romance scam,” according to an announcement from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. on Thursday, Dec. 18.
Kiehm is charged with one count of second-degree grand larceny. He was released on non-monetary bail.
Prosecutors allege Kiehm began communicating with the 44-year-old woman in 2019 and used a different name — “Dae Up Lee Kim” — while portraying himself as a finance professional and Stanford graduate…