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A woman who posed as a Saudi princess is suing American Express for letting her rack up an enormous credit card bill. Antoinette Millard is suing the credit card company for letting her use a special "Centurion Black" card meant for people who charge more than $150,000 a year. She says she was mentally ill at the time of her spending spree and that American Express should have known that she was acting irrationally and impulsively. She is suing them for $2 million. Millard is currently awaiting trial on grand larceny charges. Millard had also been under scrutiny for posing...

Lawyer assail stactics used in Jones lunch policy probe Ex-mayor Rout maintains he is unaware of criteria employed in county audit By Michael Erskine erskine@gomemphis.com October 30, 2002 Attorney Robert Spence says his client is getting kicked while he is down. How else to explain why county auditors invented policies to apply to former mayoral aide Tom Jones that even former mayor Jim Rout has never heard of, Spence argues. He said a glaring example is Jones is being asked to repay more than $16,000 charged to his county credit card for meals when Rout was not present. Those business...