Jim Norman (musician)

Norman was convicted of on July 12, 2013. The case was handled by the FBI Office’s General Crimes Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys Andrew Goldstein and Andrea Surratt were in charge of the prosecution.

Between his arrest on December 7, 2009 in Canada and his eventual extradition to the United States in November 2011, Norman spent a number of years fighting the extradition order while he was held in various Toronto Remand Centres, including the Don Jail and the Toronto West Detention Centre. He later lost his case when the Supreme Court of Canada said in its ruling over "Whether the extradition judge erred by ordering the applicant to be surrendered to the United States of America":

During the 1980s and 1990s, Norman worked with the likes of Paul Shaffer, Carole Pope, Domenic Troiano, Jimmy Smith, Oliver Lake, Salome Bey, Oliver Schroer, and Tiger Okoshi. In addition to performing at New York City's infamous Knitting Factory, a recent concert produced by Thrum Records was aired on Bravo.

Jim Norman (born David Philip James Norman IV, October 29, 1948) is a convicted fraudster serving a 20 year sentence in Federal prison. He was a Canadian percussionist, drummer, producer and composer based in Toronto, who is best known for his work in the fields of jazz, New Age trance and improvisation and later his participation in a multi-million dollar international advance fee confidence scam. He was convicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud through his ESPAVO Foundation and Thrum Records. He is currently serving the sentence in the FCI Big Spring, Texas under the BOP.gov Register Number: 65940-054.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Norman is the son of a doctor and a historian/political activist. His interest in drumming came from his grandmother, who was also an academic, played drums in Greenwich Village in the 1940s and studied with the legendary jazz drummer Cozy Cole. Living in Jamaica and the West Indies as a boy, he studied classical guitar at the Foster Davis School of Music. He returned to North America in the 1960s, studying briefly at Alfred State University in upper N.Y. State, then Sir George Williams University in Montreal. He began his career in the arts in 1967.