FS: Al Capone Statue - Life Sized - Hardly Used
Angela Buckborough Platt pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling $6.9 million dollars over six years from her apparently well to do and not too observant employer. Platt, who only pocketed $40,000 per year from her actual salary used her ill-gotten gains to purchase a bunch of crazy junk including a life size statue of Al Capone; six talking trees modeled after the "Wizard of Oz" characters and a 20-foot-tall smoke-breathing dragon. Platt outbid Michael Jackson on eBay for most of her items.
Law
2/13/2007 2:44:09 PM
by: Data
MSNBC - Angela Buckborough Platt is not your normal embezzler, in fact she is not normal period. Platt embezzled $6.9 million dollars from her employer over a period of six years. She used this money to live a lifestyle that included a four-bedroom house in Rhode Island; more than 35 vehicles; and a replica of a Ford Model T customized to look like a green goblin.
While living a life that apparently involved running a full time amusement park and sideshow out of her home Platt took time out to hire singer Burt Bacharach for a private performance. When asked for comment Bacharach said, "I thought everyone had smoke breathing dragon heads and Al Capone statues, I know I do! And so does Tony Bennett, I swear!"
The end to Platt´s dastardly scheme came when Spider-Man apprehended her in the green goblin car and webbed her to the side of a federal courthouse.
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