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Criminal Border-Crosser Captured - 5/25/2007 1:59:56 PM

selfbnd411

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Lol--but I guess she wasn't comin...she was goin!

Stripper gets 40 months for embezzlement
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A former stripper was sentenced to nearly three-and-a-half years in federal prison Friday for attempting to embezzle more than $1 million from a bank to start her own NASCAR racing team.

Harkness surrendered last month after being on the lam since '04.

Fatemeh Angela Harkness, 31, of Red rock, pleaded guilty in January 2004 to conspiring with banker Gary Jones to embezzle more than $1 million from his Austin bank from 2000 to 2003. She received a 40-month sentence.

Harkness and Jones used the money to assemble a NASCAR team called Angela's Motorsports. The team, featuring driver Mike McLaughlin, entered cars in the Busch Grand National Series starting in late 2002.

Harkness fled to Mexico before her sentencing in 2004 and continued on to the United Arab Emirates. She surrendered last month and was returned to the U.S. for sentencing.

Harkness' attorney of record, Rick J. Kennon of Austin, did not immediately return calls for comment.

Jones, who pleaded guilty to fraud, theft and embezzlement charges, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison in August 2004.

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RE: Criminal Border-Crosser Captured - 5/25/2007 2:07:53 PM

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No kidding, she ran out of money probably.
If you're going to do something like that you do it for $50 or $100 Million not $1m.

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RE: Criminal Border-Crosser Captured - 5/25/2007 6:04:18 PM

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

No kidding, she ran out of money probably.
If you're going to do something like that you do it for $50 or $100 Million not $1m.

If I remember correctly, Mike Tyson's purse was over $100M, popeye1250, and within 5 years he was
poor again.

No matter how much money an idiot is provided with, a fool and his/her money are soon parted.

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RE: Criminal Border-Crosser Captured - 5/25/2007 6:32:26 PM

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ORIGINAL: Sinergy

quote:

ORIGINAL: popeye1250

No kidding, she ran out of money probably.
If you're going to do something like that you do it for $50 or $100 Million not $1m.

If I remember correctly, Mike Tyson's purse was over $100M, popeye1250, and within 5 years he was
poor again.

No matter how much money an idiot is provided with, a fool and his/her money are soon parted.

Sinergy

Sinergy, If I managed to steal $100m I'd live very well very anonymously.
The lavish and ostentacious lifestyle that a Mike Tyson requires has no appeal to me.
I'd live very well yet probably wouldn't come close to spending the income that $100m in investments would generate.
Growth stocks, Reits, laddered bond funds etc.

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