Taylor Rene Parker: Nine Months of Lies

So a story I have for you today is It's a story.

Now, y'all, this is crazy.

This is a story coming out of Montgomery County, Maryland.

And I'm in Maryland.

So this is very local to me.

A 72 year old woman met a man on a dating website.

Yes, y'all met a man on a dating website, moved into his home months later and then steadily scammed him out of four hundred thousand dollars.

And that's according to prosecutors in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Her name was Janie Sears of Washington, D.C. And she pushed a man in his 50s to make investments, which she secretly pocketed the funds into a personal bank account and then blew through the money, spending over $55,000 on a new sedan.

And she gambled away over $100,000 at the casino of that money that she was supposed to be using.

putting in investments now a jury in montgomery county circuit court found sears guilty of theft scheme of over a hundred thousand dollars and secure also in securities fraud and misappropriation of funds by a the court on Tuesday.

Now, according to the news released from Montgomery County state attorney, now says connected with the man, he was a federal worker on a dating website and this was in September.

Oh, so this was in September of 2019, but I think she just got sentenced.

No, that can't be right.

Y'all.

I saw this story.

I'm just now, Okay, so yeah, she just now was sentenced July 7th of this month.

So I was right.

But this is when she met him.

She met him in September of 2019.

And according to prosecutors, she told the man she was a Harvard graduate who owned a D.C.-based transportation logistics company.

Now, the first time the pair met in person, Sears suggested that she stay at the victim's house in Seattle.

silver spring to make it easier for her to go to the meeting to a meeting she had in baltimore the next morning and if anybody know the area it's all in the with i would say with hours of each other um i would say silver spring is probably like an hour or so away from baltimore so either way whatever like i guess a couple well a couple of months later the man agreed to let her move into his home and that was in november of 2019 so they met in september of 2019 she was moved to his home by november of 2019 Now, Sears talked the man into some home improvement projects and suggested he get a home equity line of credit to help pay for the home improvement projects.

Now, with Sears' encouragement, he secured a $150,000 loan in May of 2020.

And in August of 2021, Sears convinced the man to join in an investment pool for the Pfizer stock.