September 11 Scammer Gets Two Years In Prison for

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

A 9/11 scammer who snookered charities out of $80,000 was tossed in the slammer for at least two years yesterday.

 

Evelyn Wellens, 42, of Edgewater, N.J., has been in jail since November, when - hours before her conviction - a juror found a note in a Manhattan Supreme Court bathroom reading "Evelyn Wellens is innocent." Court personnel found seven similar notes, leading Justice John Bradley to blame Wellens, excoriating her conduct as "unprecedented in my lengthy experience."

 

Wellens was convicted with co-defendant and ex-boyfriend Matthew Weissman, 47, a lawyer.

 

Prosecutors said Weissman pretended he had to close his downtown office after the tragedy - a bogus sob story he used to wring $8,000 from the Red Cross and Safe Horizon.

 

He then gave Wellens, his employee, bogus documents she used to claim she too was out of work, bilking charities for $80,000.

 

Credit: The New York Post

[Guest JMA]

Serves them right.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Evelyn Wellens, 42, of Edgewater, N.J., has been in jail since November, when - hours before her conviction - a juror found a note in a Manhattan Supreme Court bathroom reading "Evelyn Wellens is innocent." Court personnel found seven similar notes, leading Justice John Bradley to blame Wellens, excoriating her conduct as "unprecedented in my lengthy experience."

 

Now that's funny. She should get one hour of her sentence reduced just for that alone.

 

Otherwise, fuck her. Fuck her right in the ear...

[Guest Bottled Black]

Fuck them both. Trying to take advantage of the worst tragedy to happen on American soil. I think 2 years isn't enough.

[Downhome 0]

It's too bad this scum didn't get longer.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

It says "at least" two years.

 

I think it's embezzlement, and should get as good a fine as one would get for embezzling 80 grand should get you.