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Bride admits faking cancer… and now she has to repay the $13,000 of sympathy gifts she took for lavish wedding and Caribbean honeymoon

Jessica Vega, 25, pleaded guilty to scheming to defraud and possession of a forged instrument
Ordered to pay $13,368 in restitution

Will remain in jail until May 15 sentencing

Fooled husband Michael O’Connell into thinking she had leukemia
Relatives and strangers paid for dress and donated Aruba flights and villa

Husband took her back and now couple has two children

A New York woman admitted today that she faked cancer to con donors out of money [...]

April 25th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

Bride ‘tricked fiancé into marrying her by telling him she had cancer… then duped family and friends into paying for lavish reception and honeymoon’

Jessica Vega even fooled husband Michael O’Connell she had leukaemia
Relatives and strangers paid for dress and donated Aruba flights and villa

Husband took her back and couple now have two children

A bride who pretended to have terminal cancer so she could scam money for a lavish wedding reception and honeymoon will face felony charges over the deception.

Jessica Vega, 25, from New York, even fooled her husband to-be that she was dying from leukaemia, [...]

April 10th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment