Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood issued the following press release:
Union County Woman Going to Prison for False Pretense
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| A Real Winner |
JACKSON—
Attorney General Jim Hood announced today that a Blue Springs resident
is going to prison for attempting to profit off the murder of a Panola
County teenager by
using the murder as a way to fraudulently collect donations.
Janet Lee Posey, 41, pleaded guilty Monday
to one count of false pretense before Union County Circuit Court Judge
John A. Gregory. Posey was sentenced to 10 years in prison,
with three of those years suspended, leaving seven years to serve.
Judge Gregory ordered her to serve three years of post-release
supervision and pay $1,433 in court costs.
Posey
was arrested in December 2014 by investigators with the Attorney
General's Consumer Protection Division and the Union County Sheriff's
Office following an investigation
that revealed Posey had started a fraudulent internet scam after the
murder of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers. The investigation revealed that
Posey attempted to collect donations for the family without their
consent or knowledge.
“This
defendant posed as a family member of the victim and created a Facebook
page in an attempt to convince people to donate money to her, where she
intended to take it
for her own personal use,” Attorney General Hood said. “Her acts are
reprehensible. Fortunately, we caught her before she raised any money.
We thank Judge Gregory for his strong sentence, and I would like to
thank Sheriff Jimmy Edwards and his deputies for
their dedication and assistance on this case.”
Kingfish note: This lady apparently lives a life of scams.
Warning about her scams back in 2006 on Tupelo forums. Comments contain many details.
Baby scam on various websites.
12 comments:
Glad this thug is off the streets.
Stupid
good grief ! now we the tax payers are going to get stuck paying her chow bill for the next 2,555 days.
she will be out in about 16 months, maybe less if she was in jail during the duration of the case. she should be put on the fat table while in training camp...
Is the 'Fat Table' the part of the whaling vessel, where they cut the fat off the whales, and slide it down into the hole on the deck leading to where the cauldron is, for making the whale oil?
She will get a prison rights attorney to make sure her right to have six full meals a day with remain intact.
She will be traded for a pack of cigarettes as somebody's bitch within 12 hours
I imagine she will eat anyone who challenges her in the prison yard
Sadly, every corner of the internet is home now to similar con schemes. These cons range from the simple posting of deformed children, to 'can I get a like' for my uncle who is a veteran, to 'will you tell me that even though I'm a quadruple amputee you think I'm beautiful'.
Those are only out there to capture your personal information.
The ones that are successfully getting our money can be 'My granddaughter was hollered at at a Local McDonalds and needs cosmetic surgery and counseling....to: This child has cancer and without your help will be dead in three months....Go Fund me accounts for cats that will be put to sleep next week without donations....to: It was just a year ago that my daddy died and I have six children, three jobs and all of the bills he left from his cancer and his surgeries and the placement of a third eyeball so he could see the cops approaching our house, with warrants, after midnight.
Stop 'liking' and 'sharing' these crap pleas and stop donating.
Doesn't Eggbert Horsemann regulate charities? He must have been too busy curing autism, arresting copper thieves, and pontificating on other things that are far outside the scope of his job.
You gonna eat yo cornbread? Asking for a friend.
"They frame me up, yep, sho did! I were going to give most of that money to the family. All I was gonna keep was money to pay for my stamps and poster boards plus a little here and there for my time. Time is money, right?"
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