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Two more sentences have been handed down in the epic story of the Office of Tax and Revenue embezzlement case. The Post reports that Patricia Steven, 73, has been sentenced to five years and two months in prison for her role in the scam, while her estranged husband, Robert, 55, got three years and 10 months. Patricia Steven was a friend of Harriette Walters, and became involved in the embezzlement ring as early as 1990. Robert Steven appears to have received a lighter sentence due to his cooperation with prosecutors and claim that he was misled by his wife about where the money was coming from. The Stevens helped steal about $8 million of the roughly $50 million believed to have been taken in the Walters scam.
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wow, patricia, 18 years older than robert! that's one hell of a cougar right there!
I can only hope her "sentence" ends in a "dangling modifier" ON HER CHIN.
I was mislead, I thought my wife was repeatedly winning the lotto.
I've read that the reason they separated is because Robert learned that Patricia had been lying about her age for the entire marriage. Presumably he thought she was much younger.
Ah, two more for the stocks, very good.
if you really cared about someone, enough to marry the person, and you found out later they were a different age than you though, would that really be enough (on its own) to end a marriage? sounds like a weak-ass relationship to me.
And what the heck does it matter that she is 18 years older? They are thieves, scam artists, crooks, bamboozlers, whatever you call them. The only thing is she will probably die in prison and he will get out of prison and do some other scam! Both of them deserve a much longer sentence!