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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Larry Neumeister

Florida woman who scammed Holocaust survivor out of $2.8m in dating site fraud is jailed for four years

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A Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor’s life savings by posing as a love interest and then lived lavishly off the $2.8 million she got was sentenced Thursday to over four years in prison.

Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champions Gate, Florida, was described by US District Judge Edgardo Ramos as “unspeakably cruel” and motivated by greed as he announced the sentence in Manhattan federal court.

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