re: Friend of mine dealt with an interesting scam recently

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Lee later missed another court hearing, claiming she’d been in the hospital. She gave the judge hospital admissions records to prove it, but even the records were proved to be forged.

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if these criminals put as much effort into bettering themselves and being productive citizens as they do into their half baked schemes, we would be a nation of renaissance men!

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No kidding. I used to work at a fairly large company that had made the mistake of hiring some woman who was basically a con artist and then tried to fire her. Turned out she knew employment law better than the company's own lawyers and 15 or so years later she was still getting her salary due to some technicality.

Thing is, the salary wasn't really that much and she clearly knew the law well enough she could have hired herself out as a consultant and made bank. But she wasn't that enterprising and just wanted the free money.