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How to Make $220,000 Without Leaving Prison
Friday June 24, 2005 9:59am
Erie, Pa. (AP) - Two women who participated in a prison love letter scheme that netted more than $220,000 will spend more time in prison.
Cynthia Denise Livingston was sentenced Monday to one and one-half years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $5,000 restitution.
Michelle Mendoza was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered pay nearly $7,700 restitution.
Livingtson and Mendoza are among ten inmates from Erie, Crawford and Lycoming counties indicted in September.
According to prosecutors, the inmates placed personal ads to start relationships with men. Typically, the inmate would send a photograph of an attractive woman, falsely claiming it was of her.
The inmate would ask for money to spend at the prison commissary and, as time progressed, they'd claim they'd soon be released and needed money to relocate.
Then they'd tell the men they received new charges and wouldn't be getting out of prison after all.
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