{"id":2654,"date":"2015-12-22T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2016-01-02T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:36:14","slug":"woman-indicted-for-online-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2015\/12\/22\/woman-indicted-for-online-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Indicted For Online Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/online-scam.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2655\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2015\/12\/22\/woman-indicted-for-online-scam\/online-scam\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/online-scam.jpg?fit=236%2C213&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"236,213\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"online scam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/online-scam.jpg?fit=236%2C213&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/online-scam.jpg?resize=236%2C213\" alt=\"online scam\" width=\"236\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2655\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKentucky Attorney General Jack Conway says a Washington County woman has been indicted for allegedly operating an online scam to raise money for a fictitious dying child.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Conway&#8217;s office says a Washington County grand jury recently indicted 63-year-old Frankie Louise Yates of Springfield on one count of theft by deception over $10,000. Yates was arrested by the Washington County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment stems from a complaint alleging that Yates was soliciting money and gifts online for a terminally ill boy. Conway&#8217;s office says an investigation by state and local officials determined the child did not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Conway&#8217;s office says investigators identified about 70 victims from across the U.S. and Canada who donated more than $16,000 in toys, books and gift cards to Yates over a three- to five-year period.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway says a Washington County woman has been indicted for allegedly operating an online scam to raise money for a fictitious dying child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-GO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-02 19:46:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}