FBI: Couple duped NY family by claiming ties to Dick Cheney

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/06/24/news/regional/ab1bd9a3a829b344872573010065ac3e.txt

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SEATTLE -- A Colorado couple will be returned to Buffalo, N.Y., to face federal charges that they duped their relatives out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by claiming, among other things, that the husband had worked for Vice President Dick Cheney and former New York Gov. George Pataki.

William and Lisa Harris, formerly of Golden, Colo., told Lisa's aunts, uncles and another man that William's connection to Cheney provided him the opportunity to invest in a spinoff of Halliburton Co., Cheney's former employer, according to an affidavit for probable cause filed in the case. There was no such spinoff, and William Harris is accused of using the money to support his gambling habit.

The FBI tracked them to a motel in Mount Vernon, north of Seattle, and tailed them when they separately left the building Monday, headed for Interstate 5, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Lang said Wednesday. William Harris, driving a motor home, pulled over for the agents and Mount Vernon police, but his wife kept driving and had to be forced off the road, Lang said.

They were both arrested -- just days before they were to be featured on "America's Most Wanted," Lang said. They made initial appearances at U.S. District Court in Seattle on Tuesday and will be returned to Buffalo in the next few weeks, Lang said. A magistrate judge ordered them detained pending trial, and a lawyer who represented the husband at the hearing said he could not comment on the charges.

"That dirtbag, he's about as low as can be, and she's lower than him, because it's her family," Lisa Harris' uncle, Chautauqua County real estate agent Richard Benedetto, said Wednesday.

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The only thing lower than claiming ties to Private Dick is actually being tied to Private Dick.

[Bluzmann57]

1. I think if someone told me they were connected to dick

I'd tell them to leave my house before harm befell them. I ain't wealthy, at least monetarily, but I sure as hell don't need anything to do with dick. I'll think of something else to get wealthy.

[greenbriar]

2. they are just trying out some whitehouse tricks

heck if our Govt can do what ever they want and fuck american citizens, why then coulnd't others???

[tanyev]

3. Very clever.

Anyone who would be impressed that they supposedly had ties to Cheney is bound to be a gullible fool.

[HereSince1628]

4. Is that realtor is known to handle NY bridges and tunnels?

[jdadd]

5. This shouldn't be a crime.....

This is most likely a conniving Republican scamming a greedy Republican.... I love it!! :evilgrin: