GUILTY PA - Bonnie Sweeten for staged abduction, swindle, Upper Southampton, 2009

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Wow, talk about messing up your life. Her own attorney is not appealing her cause. With all those self improvement and bible classes, I wonder what she did?
 
If convicted of all charges, Bonnie Sweeten faces up to 375 years in federal prison.

The 39-year-old Lower Southampton mother of three is facing nearly two dozen charges of fraud, money laundering, forgery and related offenses detailed in a federal grand jury indictment released Thursday. If convicted of all charges, she faces up to 375 years in federal prison.

She'd already been under investigation for swindling $280,000 from her first husband's 92-year-old grandfather, authorities said. The morning of the hoax, a check she knew would bounce did, and while police frantically searched for the suburban mom and her daughter, the pair boarded a flight for Disney World, according to the grand jury.

Full article here: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/loc...2010/may/21/federal-charges-for-hoax-mom.html
 
Whoa Nellie! That girl's in a whole lotta hurts now. Sheesh.
 
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If convicted of all charges, Bonnie Sweeten faces up to 375 years in federal prison.

The 39-year-old Lower Southampton mother of three is facing nearly two dozen charges of fraud, money laundering, forgery and related offenses detailed in a federal grand jury indictment released Thursday. If convicted of all charges, she faces up to 375 years in federal prison.

She'd already been under investigation for swindling $280,000 from her first husband's 92-year-old grandfather, authorities said. The morning of the hoax, a check she knew would bounce did, and while police frantically searched for the suburban mom and her daughter, the pair boarded a flight for Disney World, according to the grand jury.

Full article here: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/loc...2010/may/21/federal-charges-for-hoax-mom.html
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Pa. hoax abduction mom held in $700K fraud case

By MARYCLAIRE DALE
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A suburban mother once arrested at Disney World after calling in a hoax abduction of her daughter has been ordered held in a $700,000 federal fraud case.

The FBI took custody of 39-year-old Bonnie Sweeten early Friday from the Bucks County Prison after she served 10 months for the hoax kidnapping.


She's FRIED
 
Belinda said:
This chick is a real piece of work isn't she?
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Same exact thing I said when I saw her face in The Daily News today.;)

Those poor people will never get their money back.
 
US judge detains Pa. hoax mom for fraud trial

BAIL DENIED

Jul 1, 4:36 PM By MARYCLAIRE DALE
Associated Press Write
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ABDUCTION_HOAX?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

Now the federal fraud probe is complete, and the stakes have gotten higher for the paralegal and mother of three. If convicted of swindling her boss, law firm clients and an elderly relative, she faces nine years or more in federal prison.

At a detention hearing Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Linda K. Caracappa wrestled with ways that Sweeten might be released to await trial. But in the end, she denied bail, saying the potential danger Sweeten posed to her daughters worried her more than the flight risk.

"Desperate and creative things follow Ms. Sweeten when she's faced with desperate situations, and that's what she faces now," Caracappa said.

Prosecution witnesses now include both of Sweeten's ex-husbands, her parents, a former mother-in-law and her former employer and co-workers, according to court filings.

"There's no family here today. None. They've all been duped by her," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Denise Wolf, who called the former school volunteer a "con artist" and "pariah."

Sweeten's trial is set for mid-August but is likely to be continued.
 
Update: Sweeten (now also using her previously married surname of Rakoczy) was conditionally released in 2016, only to re-enter prison in 2018 for probation violation. She had gotten a new bookkeeping job... only problem was, as a convicted felon, she wasn't even supposed to be holding that kind of job.
news.yahoo.com

'Hoax mom' Bonnie Sweeten admits stealing nearly $150K from employer. Again.

Bonnie Sweeten was charged last month with stealing from a former friend who hired her after she was released from federal prison in 2016.
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"The violation and others led to federal authorities revoking her release. She served an additional nine months in federal prison before she was released in 2019, and subsequently moved to Delanco, New Jersey.
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As if that weren't bad enough, she turned out to be a recidivist. Recently, she was charged with the same kind of office crimes as before.
6abc.com

Bonnie Sweeten, mother who faked kidnapping 13 years ago, charged with stealing from employer

Bonnie Sweeten, the mother who faked her kidnapping in Bucks County, Pa. 13 years ago, is now being charged with stealing from her former employer.
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"The 51-year-old was charged in the U.S Eastern District Court in Philadelphia on Monday [Oct. 17, 2022] with two counts of wire fraud for stealing from a Doylestown-based excavating company that had hired her as a bookkeeper, federal prosecutors said.

"Authorities say the president of the company hired Sweeten in Sept. 2017 because he had known her for many years."
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According to the Yahoo article, she has since pleaded guilty, and is allowed to remain free until her Feb. 21, 2023 sentencing.

Edited: too difficult to describe here because so much has happened since 2012.
 
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