Posted on 04/26/2006 12:23:38 PM PDT by freepatriot32
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A would-be home buyer with less than a dollar in her bank account pleaded guilty to fraud in what prosecutors said was an attempt to steal an entire house.
Wendy Jean-Francois, 44, of Morrisville, pleaded guilty Monday in Bucks County Court to multiple counts of fraud, forgery and related charges.
Prosecutors said Jean-Francois had 97 cents in her bank account when she sat down Oct. 5 at a settlement table at Rainbow Assurance, a mortgage title firm in Falls.
She used two checks totaling $63,000 and a letter vouching for them, purportedly from a Wachovia Bank manager, and left with the keys to a $328,000 home, prosecutors said.
The checks turned out to be counterfeit and the letter forged, said David Zellis, first assistant district attorney. "This just boggles the mind," he said. Bucks County Judge Kenneth Biehn deferred Jean-Francois' sentencing for a mental health evaluation.
That's some Nesting Instinct she's got.
In an age of total deceit, how is it possible that this woman was believed? Amazing!
Doesn't sound like she got far. But if she actually got a mortgage for the rest of the amount, while being a penniless nutcase, that's a worrisome sign about the state of the mortgage industry.
A search of her person found it stuffed into her bra.
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