In bullet format here is what I read in my newspaper on 1/28/11 (my sage comments will be in bold)...
- This was a Bank Account Takeover Scheme ... Otherwise known as people stealing other people’s money.
- Six schemers victimized Chinese, Korean, Laotian and Vietnamese residents in California, Oregon and Washington ... Does not sound like it was a spur of the moment thing.
- The scheme was conducted from November 2008 to April 2010 ... Does not sound like it was a spur of the moment thing.
- The victims were contacted by phone and told that they had unpaid bills with telephone or utility companies.
- Using the personal information gathered from their victims, the defendants ordered bank checks and added themselves as users on victim’s credit cards ... Does not sound like it was a spur of the moment thing.
- The schemers then spent $500,000 of the victim’s money on everything from Louis Vuitton purses to a daschund ... This is the first sliver of sympathy on my part for the schemers. If they go to jail, who is going to care for the little doggie?
The following 4 bullets are not true and were made up by me...
- The schemers were given very harsh sentences.
- They were all sentenced to 35 years in prison.
- They have to pay back the $500,000 plus interest.
- They have to put the daschund into the Louis Vuitton purse and personally deliver it to Barbara Streisand the day before they report to the hoosegow to begin serving their 35 year sentences.
The following 4 bullets are the actual sentence that was handed down to one of the schemers yesterday...
- She was sentenced to 6 months of home confinement ... No this is not a misprint. She was not sentenced to jail. She has to stay home. (I am sure an exception will be made so that she can go to her Pilates classes).
- This harsh sentence is followed up by 5 whole years of supervised release ... What is that?
- If you think she plead guilty to a whole bunch of charges, you are wrong. She only plead guilty to a single count of Mail Fraud ... I wonder if she was laughing out loud as she told the court, “I plead guilty”.
- Well she certainly had to pay back all that money. Right? Wrong! ... She has to pay back $50,000. That’s quite a bargain! That’s like a mugger saying to a muggee, “Give me that $500,000 in your pocket. What? You only have $50,000? Ok, you owe me $450,000. Here is my address. Bring me $50,000 a week for the next nine weeks.”.
Have you finally come to a full realization why I have no need to make up my Foolishness...Or Is It?. I just have to keep reading my newspaper and I will never run out of silly things to tell you about.
Would I kid u?
