A Florida couple allegedly led their 13-year-old son to believe he was dying in order to solicit charitable donations from the local community for spurious medical expenses. The New York Post reports that Ginny Irovando Long, 34, and her husband, Robert Edward Long, 47, were charged with one count of child abuse and nine counts …
A Sterrett, Alabama, woman who swindled loved ones out of more than $260,000 by pretending to have terminal cancer was sentenced to 25 months in federal prison on Wednesday. Tuscaloosa News reported that Jennifer Flynn Cataldo, 37, lied to friends and family for more than two years and accepted donations intended to cover her medical treatments, …
In a West Virginia court on Monday, a former Mesquite, Texas, teacher was sentenced to six months in federal prison for misusing a government credit card in 2015. The court also presented evidence that he tricked students in believing he had cancer in January, while working at a Mesquite middle school. The Dallas Morning News reports …
