The man’s son eventually found out what was going on and put a stop to it, but it was too late. He lost his life savings and had to give up his Manhattan apartment because of the scam, the indictment says.
of an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor in what a prosecutor called a “sick” romance scam pleaded guilty Friday and could face prison time, officials said.
Peaches Stergo, 36, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, which carries a maximum of 20 years in prison under the law. The Champions Gate woman stole over $2.8 million from the man in a scam that lasted years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. Stergo met him on a dating website, and in 2017 she asked for money, claiming she’d gotten a settlement from a lawsuit but needed to pay her lawyer to receive it, according to court documents.
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