WHO@ Newsletter - March 28, 2011
I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Helium may have been better Mont. man gets year for fraud; used female voice http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110324/ap_ on_fe_st/us_odd_man_impersonates_ex_wife A Montana man who mimicked a female voice is exchanging his ill-gotten Tempur-Pedic mattress for a cot in a federal prison. The U.S. attorney's office in Idaho says 60-year-old Ricky Vaughn Barry of Hamilton, Mont., was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison for impersonating his ex-wife when speaking to company representatives. The calls to open a line of credit and order a $4,000 bed and sheets were recorded. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mitchell in Boise said the case against the former Coeur d'Alene resident developed after his ex-wife pulled her credit report and found accounts used to purchase the bed and a laptop. The federal charges did not include the laptop purchase, but both items were sold to help pay just over $7,700 in restitution. * * * * * * * * * * *...