A third person involved in a multi-million-dollar romance scam was convicted today in federal court in Providence,
The U.S. Attorney's office said 28-year-old Sadae Mills of Houston, Texas, admitted her role in a scheme that bilked unsuspecting seniors out of over three-point-two-million-dollars.
"Mills would take these payments, mostly in the form of money orders, cash, or wire transfers, deposit the ill-gotten funds into her bank account, and would then withdraw or transfer the proceeds, as directed by a co-conspirator. In doing so, Mills acted with the intent to conceal and disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, and control of the funds." prosecutors said.
She pleaded to a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering for receiving payments that were fraudulently obtained from women through Internet and app-based romance scams. Mills will be sentenced in May.
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