A woman who told her friends she had cancer and then took money from a fund they established to help her get treatment was sentenced Monday to three years in jail but will not have to serve it until she’s paid the money back.
Charity funds thief gets three years
A Columbia woman gets five years of supervised probation before her jail time.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 5:13 p.m. CDT, Thursday, July 17, 2008
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