I wanted to post this case article as a change of pace. These type of crimes and criminals can be devastating to people yet are often punished lightly and overlooked:
Woman who faked way into Harvard sentenced to four years in prison
Esther Reed collected $100,000 (£69,000) in student loans
30-year old assumed identities of three other people
Esther Reed, 30, conned her way into Harvard and Columbia universities and earned a spot on the US Secret Service's "eight most wanted" list by adopting the identities of several people after she left Washington state a decade ago. Among the identities that Reed assumed was that of Brooke Henson, a woman who vanished from a house party in Travelers Rest, South Carolina in 1999.
Lisa Henson, Brooke Henson's sister, who spoke at Reed's sentencing on Wednesday in Greenville, South Carolina, asked the judge to impose the harshest sentence possible for dragging their family through the pain of hoping that Brooke had been found.
Henson said Reed smiled and laughed in court on Wednesday, acting as if she had done nothing wrong.
"She sly like a fox. She doesn't want to face anybody who she has done wrong," Henson said.
During her nine years on the run, Reed had claimed to be a European chess champion and dated cadets from the US Military Academy, according to police and court documents. She got a passport, passed a high-school-equivalency test, obtained an Ohio identification card, took an SAT test in California and was accepted to the School of General Studies at Columbia University - all by using Henson's identity, according to grand-jury charging documents.
Reed also had fictitious marriage certificates, a birth certificate in her legal name and a Washington state driver's license. She was arrested and turned over to Secret Service agents. - Read the entire article here
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