Vanessa O'Rourke enfrenta acusações federais de fraude eletrônica após supostamente arrecadar fundos alegando que tinha um câncer cerebral terminal.
O FBI afirma que O'Rourke, de Harleysville, na Pensilvânia, começou a dizer a familiares e amigos em outubro de 2015 que precisava de dinheiro para um tratamento experimental na Austrália contra um glioblastoma. Ela manteve as alegações até julho de 2016 e realizou pelo menos duas viagens ao país durante esse período.
Haleigh Knight from Henderson, Nevada, admitted to faking a pancreatic cancer diagnosis to defraud people out of more than $20,000. She pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge for scams running from June 2023 to April 2024. Knight faces sentencing on June 24.
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A Florida woman has been charged after allegedly posing as a domestic violence victim to defraud a disabled man of more than $2,000 through Facebook Dating. Police say Gianna Abel-Venezia admitted the scheme but claimed she did not realize it was illegal.
An Illinois woman has been charged with hiding the death of her elderly neighbor for over three years after allegedly finding the body and continuing to access the victim's financial accounts.
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Kaitlyn Rose Laura, a 31-year-old Texas woman, faces charges of serious bodily injury to a child and aggravated assault after allegedly subjecting her toddler son to unnecessary feeding tubes and other treatments. Authorities say she fabricated her son's medical history over at least a year. The child improved markedly after separation from his mother.