Oops, I Married A Con Artist, Part Four
Posted: Friday, September 04, 2009
by Deborah Nelson
Author Your Dreams
Legal Rights and Wrongs
Frank put on his uniform and left the house. So, as instructed, I paged the OSI. Their response shocked me. "We aren't going to arrest him; he's never been military and isn't in our jurisdiction." I asked how they knew. "We ran his social security number," he replied. "Which one?" I asked incredulously. "The one on his military ID." I couldn't believe my ears. "You ran his false social security number on his false military ID to determine he's never been military?" "Yes," the officer replied unflinchingly.
As police questioned Frank, Sophie quietly dashed upstairs to his office. Because she had been investigating him and had come up with so many inconsistencies between his stories and truth, she was sure he had fake IDs stashed somewhere. In the deep dark recesses of his closet, she reached into a tuxedo jacket pocket and struck a goldmine of false ID cards, credit cards, and cash Frank had taken from my purse. My driver's license was there too. She discretely handed them to the officer. In moments Frank was arrested for false ID. Frank wasn't, however, charged with the theft of my cash or driver's license. "Community property can't be stolen," police explained. Not knowing how Frank might retaliate should he discover my spying, I played dumb and reacted with utter shock when informed of his false identity.
The police took him away, but shortly afterward they came back to warn us. Frank had been released by the FBI and he was walking home. They advised us to get out and stay elsewhere for safety. They couldn't arrest him because the FBI now had jurisdiction. Why the FBI let him go is still a mystery. "I have a right to be here," declared Frank when I called home to ask him to leave. My neighbor had called the police for Frank and they had helped him break into my house. The police told me that without divorce papers or a restraining order, Frank had a right to be there!
After months of my assisting the OSI and FBI, Frank was free and making me a refugee from my own home. Even though Frank had fake military ID and the FBI knew it, the FBI declined to charge him. It was unbelievable! The following day I filed for a temporary restraining order and moved home as soon as the police escorted Frank out. Next, I endured a series of nerve-wracking hearings to fight for a permanent restraining order. Frank hired an attorney, but because my finances had been depleted by his embezzlement, I had to represent myself. Frank's exes, Darla and Delia, joined me in court and held my hand to keep me brave. Thanks to a discerning female judge and astute witnesses, we won the case! I had become spy wife, detective, and now an attorney.
Uniform Magic
Frank had used his imaginary military rank like a magic wand to achieve his desires. His uniform disarmed people, overruled suspicion, and granted him instant authority. With a fraudulent credit report, he acquired a $10,000 loan in uniform from a military credit union. In uniform he sweet-talked a teller into cashing a large counter check on my business account. The account went negative and was closed. It took nine months, copies of the annulment, restraining order, and notarized fraud affidavits to reopen that account.
In uniform "my hero" secretly borrowed money from my dearest friends, explaining that my business was undergoing adversity and that I was too proud to ask for help. Frank "borrowed" thousands-thousands for which I was liable. Frank's case went from the United States Air Force (OSI) to Homeland security, to the FBI and, finally, to the Colorado Attorney General. An agent came to retrieve evidence-uniform and medals. The FBI investigation finally concluded, but in another episode of the unbelievable, the agent explained, "Ms. Nelson, the attorney general has decided not to take enforcement action against Frank."
They had deemed Frank's impersonation was not prosecutable, because he hadn't cost society at least $100,000 within two years! And to further compound the unbelievable, no one bothered to inform the local police that they now had jurisdiction to pursue the impersonation charge.
Continued in Oops I Married A Con Aritist, Final Episode
Ms Nelson is the Inventor of Dating ID (http://www.DatingID.org) Founder of The Dating Passport (http://www.mydatingpassport.com) and nominee of the Entreprenerial Excellence Award given by WORKING WOMENS MAGAZINE and a Ms. Corporate America 2008 National Finalist. She has spoken about The Dating Passport on Live TV for a segment on Internet Fraud on the Fox News Network.
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