Thursday, December 6, 2007

Couple Arrested in Medical Diagnosing Scam

A man, named Brent Eric Finley, was sentenced to more than four years in prison for scamming friends and family out of more than $800,000 by telling them that his wife was a government agent that could diagnose their medical problems through satellite imaging. He was sentenced in federal court to serve 51 months in prison and then three years of supervised release. His wife, Stacey Finley, was sentenced to 63 months in prison. The couple is ordered to pay $873,786.94 in restitution. The couple also pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

The couple told people that Stacey Finley was a CIA agent that had contacts that she could use to schedule a medical scan of the people’s bodies using satellite imaging that could detect any medical problems. They said that if any medical problems were found, secret agents would give them medicine while they were asleep if they paid them.

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