Senior / Family

The insurance agent who wasn't. The emergency that never happened.

Michelle Acker pleaded guilty this week to a six-year wire fraud that drained more than $670,000 from an elderly woman and her friend. The mechanism was a voice on the phone, an emergency that never ended, and an insurance agent who never existed.

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