Peaches Stergo, 36, convinced the 87-year-old man to make monthly $50,000+ payments to her over several years and was living a 'life of luxury' on his money.
Per the Justice Department, Stergo met her victim on a dating website about six years ago. She
lied to him that she’d recently “settled a lawsuit involving injuries in a car accident but that her lawyer would not release the settlement funds until he received a certain amount of money,” theIn May 2017, the 87-year-old sent his first check to Stergo for $25,000. Moving forward, he wrote “almost monthly checks” to Stergo,
“often in increments of $50,000.” Stergo allegedly justified these demands for money by repeatedly telling the Holocaust survivor that her bank “needed more money” or her account would be frozen.simply seeking companionship, defrauding him of his life savings,” Michael J. Driscoll, the assistant director heading the FBI’s New York field office, said on Wednesday, announcing the charge against Stergo.
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