A Broward County, Florida, woman pleaded guilty Monday to her role in a Jamaica-based telemarketing lottery fraud that targeted seniors in the U.S.
Elizabeth Gonzalez, 25, of Hollywood and Miami Gardens, a nurse, pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud conspiracy charge in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.
Her husband, Delroy Drummond, a musician who also goes by the name Top Banga, age 26, has been locked up has been locked up without bond since January. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud for his role in a $500,000 lottery hoax.
Gonzalez, who is pregnant and free on $100,000 bond, told U.S. District Judge William Zloch her husband asked her to get involved in the fraud and she was "afraid" to say no to him.
She is expected to face about one year to 18 months in federal prison when she is sentenced July 27, prosecutors said.
Gonzalez admitted she received nine wire transfers from victims, who were in their 70s and 80s, between September and January. Telemarketers in Jamaica had contacted the victims and duped them into believing they had won a lottery prize, then told them they had to pay fees or taxes in advance. The victims were told to send money to Gonzalez and her husband, authorities said.
I suggest that this women must be freed.what do you suggest?
To be freed for the sake of the young soul in her stomach.
I have no sympathy for scum who scam and prey on elderly people.
I get scamming phone calls all the time.
No sympathy here either.
Greed Greed Greed....
What happened to that those "equal rights" feminazis are always whining about?
You want to take her place?
They are both <snip>s, feel sorry for the baby.
So pregnant women should be absolved of crimes they commit? Don't think so.
Pregnancy in jail/prison is nothing new. If guilty, jail time is in order. If you do the crime, you do the time.
Prisons offer services for both the pregnancy and her baby. She will not be the first.
All elder and soon to be senior citizen LP members should take this as another warning.
Trust very few. Create a lifeboat and only save your few who you love all others can look elsewhere. Be a friend to your special few and include them in your life decisions like sending money to strangers.
Biology 101: Where does a baby grow?
The baby does not grow in the stomach. It grows in the womb - which is another word for uterus. The pre-pregnancy uterus is fairly small, about the size of a woman's tightly clenched fist. It sits right above the vagina. The cervix - which can be felt at the top of the vagina connects the uterus and the vagina.
Before pregnancy the uterus is situated safely behind your pubic bone, unless a girl or woman is extremely thin, it can't really be felt by pressing on your tummy. Once an embryo attaches to the lining of the uterus, the uterus starts to move up - just a little bit to make room for the uterus to grow with the baby.
At 12 weeks gestation the very top of the womb (called the fundus) can be felt at the same height as the pubic bone - for the next 28 to 30 weeks it will grow at the rate of 1cm/week - so by 20 weeks the womb will measure 20cm and will be about even with the mother's belly button. Tracking this growth is one way the doctor knows all is progressing normally. At 40 weeks the womb will measure 40cm - by this time most women are pretty sure there is no more room in the womb - thankfully the journey is about over.
When you hear someone talk about about the baby growing in their stomach feel free to remind them the baby is no where near their stomach, as it safely grows in the womb.
Depending on when she conceived, since her husband has been locked up without bond since January.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you florida. The crappy state I can't wait to leave. It doesn't matter if you're white, black, young or old everyone is scamming and scheming as we can clearly see here. I'm packed and ready to go.
I have two sisters, and if they were afraid of their husbands, than they need to say something to get help. So, this Florida woman needs to have her baby, than go to prison.
Just wondering, if you won the lottery, KinG666BlaZe, would you leave Florida?
bigbear29 I believe the Notorious BIG said it best. "I'm going back to cali strictly for the women, sticky green and the weather." I can't wait to grown my own weed that's for sure. I already found a 1.7 acre plot of land that is gonna be home to the mansion
Hope you're rooting for the Bolts! Go Tampa!
The rays are cool but Ima old school marlins fan back when the Logo was a F not a M. I remember every year we won the series. lol oops you mean hockey. uhh yea go lightening!
Cool.
I hear you, king666blaze, I would move to Rancho santa fe, Ca. (San Diego area). But without the weed, and now I'm only into upbeat jazz.
lol all my energy has been going to hopin the heat win even though we lost sunday. Go tampa tho bring the ship home.
I saw some really nice homes in that area. Ima be going back and forth between cali and NY fo sho.
That "young soul in her stomach" will be better off not raised by a sociopath and a scammer.
A family that steals together: Stays together: In Jail!
Sorry Liz, don't buy the piece of being " afraid." You a nurse for goodness sake. If you saw a Dr betraying the hippocratic Oath they swore to uphold- you would be all over that thing because you knew it to be wrong. You as a nurse going after Seniors is just as wrong.
how is it she can post bail yet not be told to pay back the funds?
Feel sorry for the child.
Sad to say, but the scammers that told the victims to send their money to Gonzalez and his wife, most likely had someone else set up to collect the money the day after he got arrested.
And if the scammers ever do get caught, someone else will take their place the day after they go to jail too.
Could restitution be ordered at the sentancing hearing?
In reply to LiveInGreenBay's comment:
After all what valuable lessons would they have to teach their kids, if they were just let go?
Very little, if any quality home-training.
Thanks, TheMeatman2005, apparently Abdi also didn't know that a woman's (and man's) stomach is strictly for food digestion; nothing to do with birthing no babies.
Guess where Top Banga got the money from. Probably not gigs.
Where did she get the 100k to post bail? Gee I wonder.
I get emails from scam artists every day telling me that someone I don't know in Africa died & left me 10 or 20 million dollars and then then want all your personal information. I got an email yesterday saying that the 84 year old Florida woman that won 550 million dollars after some guy let her get in front of him wants to give me 2 million dollars! Yeah, right!
I also receive SCAMMING CALLS CONTINUOUSLY, I've been dealing with Fraud in my computer, Bank Account, Credit Card and anything else you can think of, Home & Auto Loans I have know Idea who did them or where their from, I'm on Disability am in a Wheelchair, can't afford a way to get a vehicle so I can Take My Chair with me or go any where, I don't even Live in a place big enough for me & my chair to get around in. YES I WORKED VERY HARD SINCE I WAS 14 YRS OLD TO HAVE A NICE HOME TO RAISE MY CHILDREN IN BY MYSELF, The Home we had before, the pool was bigger then where I live now! Yet SCAMMERS ARE STILL TRYING TOO TAKE WHAT LITTLE I DON'T HAVE!!!
DO I FEEL SORRY FOR PEOPLE LIKE THAT HELL NO! THEY SHOULD GO TO JAIL, DO NOT PASS GO AND DO NOT COLLECT ANY MONEY AT ALL!!!!
Not enough time and she should be forced to pay ALL the money back