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Woman admits ID theft in Ivy League case

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:20 PM EDT
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A Montana woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing the identity of a missing South Carolina woman to attend an Ivy League school in what her lawyer called a bid to escape a painful past.

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Auzziegirl

How desperate you have to be to go to all that trouble. Although I've heard that it's a real high for some of these identity thieves to be able to get away with it, and for as long as she did. Also makes you wonder if she didn't have something to do with the missing woman's disappearance! Recently, my husband's identity was stolen, but the thief knew the laws very well. Anything over a certain amount and you go to jail. He was able to keep his transactions under that amount, but he had a lot of them and he got caught. The case is pending.

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    Reply#1 - Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:09 PM EDT
    {"commentId":2513169,"authorDomain":"harleygirlv"}
    Rottiemom

    Wow...I can't believe her only excuse is she was trying to escape her past! Well start being a decent person that would be a good start! I hope this stupid beeotch is happy with the pain she's caused this poor girl's family, nice get their hopes up to find out its not their daughter its just some criminal liar. Sad, I hope this woman rots in jail!

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      Reply#2 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:12 AM EDT
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      notbornyesterday-359530

      The B — — CH deserves the 47 year sentence! There is NO excuse for what she did so she needs to be punished!

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        Reply#3 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:21 PM EDT
        {"commentId":2518293,"authorDomain":"b-lauren123"}
        Lori-429445

        If she gets off, you just know every other ID theif is going to use the same excuse. "I didn't mean to hurt anyone, I was just trying to escape a bad past!"

        Yeah, right!

        The best way to escape a bad past is to actually make an effort to start living well, not destroy a stranger's life to finance your own!

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          Reply#4 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:32 PM EDT
          {"commentId":2519278,"authorDomain":"willis-1"}
          Wes-331505

          Mulligans only happen in a friendly golf game. If you need to start over, start by being honest. Dishonesty is usually what made your past a mess in the first place.

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            Reply#5 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:52 PM EDT
            {"commentId":2519424,"authorDomain":"garyd-25304"}
            gyrfalcon1711

            I wonder, as should law enforcement agents, how she answered some personal family information unless she had had some contact with the person from whom she had stolen the ID from.

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              Reply#6 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:03 PM EDT
              {"commentId":2525610,"authorDomain":"judhar"}
              J A Harris

              ID theft is inexcusable but why is it that legal citizens get in a lot of trouble for ID theft but all the millions of illegal immigrants using other people's names and SS#'s and entering U S illegally are accepted except for the victims and a few others. I think she needs the book thrown at her and the illegals doing the same thing sent home.

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                Reply#7 - Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:33 AM EDT
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