Con Artist Screams at Judge not Recognizing his Authority
I have observed that most scam artists and con men are relatively subdued and marginally humble once they know they have been caught and law enforcement is privy to their money stealing ways. Janet Mavis Marcusse of Grand Rapids Michigan was the opposite of this when she was caught ripping off the life savings of many elderly investors.
She stole the retirement savings of many of the 577 people she conned and had the effrontery to scream at the judge who was reading her sentence. To make the stolen money hard to track, she put it in bank accounts of fictitious churches she had set up.
The ringleader of a scheme that bilked investors out of millions of dollars was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, but not before the screaming defendant was removed from the courtroom. Janet Mavis Marcusse was convicted of defrauding 577 people of $12.7 million and laundering the money through bank accounts opened under the names of nonexistent churches. Marcusse, 49, spoke for more than an hour at the hearing, accusing the government of setting her up. She walked away from the lectern as U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell began issuing her sentence, prompting the judge to order U.S. marshals to bring her back, prosecutor Mike Schipper said.
I am glad Marcusse, age 49 at the time of her sentencing in 2005, got 25 year years in the penitentiary. She will get out at the ripe old age of 74 and I bet she won't be able to dupe the members of her crochet club!
She stole the retirement savings of many of the 577 people she conned and had the effrontery to scream at the judge who was reading her sentence. To make the stolen money hard to track, she put it in bank accounts of fictitious churches she had set up.
The ringleader of a scheme that bilked investors out of millions of dollars was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, but not before the screaming defendant was removed from the courtroom. Janet Mavis Marcusse was convicted of defrauding 577 people of $12.7 million and laundering the money through bank accounts opened under the names of nonexistent churches. Marcusse, 49, spoke for more than an hour at the hearing, accusing the government of setting her up. She walked away from the lectern as U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell began issuing her sentence, prompting the judge to order U.S. marshals to bring her back, prosecutor Mike Schipper said.
I am glad Marcusse, age 49 at the time of her sentencing in 2005, got 25 year years in the penitentiary. She will get out at the ripe old age of 74 and I bet she won't be able to dupe the members of her crochet club!
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