"I'm addicted to bouncing checks"

[wilebill]

Judge gives 3-year term to mom for bad checks (http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070628/NEWS/706280370/1001/news)

Latosha Rogers built a lifestyle around fakery: phony names, phony bank accounts, phony checks.


In court Wednesday, she said she had no choice: She was addicted to bouncing checks.


That addiction was apparently so bad Rogers bounced an average of one check every other day between 1997 and her 2006 arrest, according to a federal criminal complaint against her.


The crimes she pleaded guilty to netted her more than $250,000 worth of stuff she never paid for, prosecutors said.
Addiction to everything has become the new scapegoat for people's bad behavior. They can't help themselves, it's not their fault :smt021

[mac]

Let's see if she gets addicted to jail.

[dollfus46]

Judge gives 3-year term to mom for bad checks (http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070628/NEWS/706280370/1001/news)

Addiction to everything has become the new scapegoat for people's bad behavior. They can't help themselves, it's not their fault :smt021

$250,000 for three years is a decent return for her efforts, I'd think. Doesn't she have to pay it back?

[amanda]

$250,000 for three years is a decent return for her efforts, I'd think. Doesn't she have to pay it back?


Yep. On top of the jail time she has been ordered to pay $200,000.00 in restitution.

[dollfus46]

Yep. On top of the jail time she has been ordered to pay $200,000.00 in restitution.

Good. Wonder how they're gonna get that? Bet she hasn't two nickels to rub together. Let her start work right away and sleep in the jail at night. What does it cost per inmate to house for a year? $50,000? I wonder who's really losing here, her, her victims or us taxpayers? Just shoot her. :smt118

[Petal Polk]

It is because of people like her that the rest of us have to give a pint of blood for identification these days to cash a check. I have no sympathy for her "addiction."

[Guru]

And for every dollar that a merchantile, etc gets screwed out of, you and I get the benefit of this new leech on society by having everything we buy increase in price to make up for it.

[Bluesman]

Let's see if she gets addicted to jail.
I bet some burly cellmate will help her off her addiction by giving her somethin other than a "check to bounce":laugh: At least the withdr...:smt118 ok, I'm gettin out of hand her so I'll let ya'll fill in the blanks however you see fit.:smt105

[Kitty]

Yep. On top of the jail time she has been ordered to pay $200,000.00 in restitution.

Surely they won't accept that restitution in the form of personal checks from her. :-D

[jewelms]

According to the article:


With that, Wingate pronounced his sentence - 41 months behind bars, with credit for the 11 months already served; followed by three years of supervised release; random drug testing; no assumption of new debt; a $100 administrative fee; and restitution to two check processing companies:


$44,293.59 to Certegy.

$139,339.69 to Telecheck.

Once Rogers is released, she'll have to pay that restitution in monthly increments of $100, Wingate ordered. At that rate, she will pay off the debt in 2162.


What a joke. She will only have to pay a monthly increment of $100 until it is paid off? I sure wish I could charge $250,000 worth of stuff and only have to pay $100 for it each month.

Why even give her such a stupid restitution. Unless she lives another 150 years, she'll never be able to pay back that money!
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