A woman from Ontario has accepted responsibility for scamming Inuit
groups out of $160,000 dollars. (The Inuit are what we used to call
Eskimos in less enlightened times.) She supplied paperwork to the Inuit
groups claiming education expenses for her two daughters on the grounds
that they were Inuit, saying she was their adoptive mother. In fact,
she was their birth mother and they had no Inuit heritage at all.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mother-inuit-fraud-guilty-1.7110341
The courts have agreed that the daughters - who were originally also to
charged - had no knowledge of the scheme; the charges against the
daughters have been dropped. The idea that they were getting sizable
cheques on the basis of their (fake) heritage and had no idea that they
they'd had to pretend to be Inuit seems doubtful at best. (Of course
the idea that they were Inuit in the first place seems far-fetched!
Look at the pictures of the girls and then of the actual Inuit woman
who they claimed was her birth mother and tell me if you see any
resemblance at all.)
Sentencing doesn't happen until June but I hope they report on the
outcome. I want to hear that the scammer had to make full restitution to
the Inuit for her bald-faced lies. If the court doesn't order
restitution, there is something deeply wrong with our legal system....
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Rhino
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