Crime & Justice

Debt-Ridden Navy Employee Busted in $26M Scheme to Fulfill Her Italian Fantasy

‘COMPULSIVE LIAR’

Mechanical engineer Nicole Kristen Schuster carried out an audacious fraud in pursuit of la dolce vita, according to investigators.

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