A Florida woman who swindled the life savings from an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor in a 'romance scam' has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.
Stergo met the victim, whom authorities have never publicly identified, on a dating website and asked for money that she said was to help get funds from a legal settlement, according court documents.
Stergo was sentenced to 51 months in prison, or four years and three months, the prosecutor's office said. She was also ordered to pay $2.8 million in restitution. Stergo suffered childhood instability and trauma, which caused compulsive behaviors like past drinking and gambling, and the scam was also a compulsion, Fitz wrote in a sentencing submission.
At one point Stergo wrote to her real significant other that she needed money and a car, and “I don’t want you to work like you are it’s too hard,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing submission of their own. Prosecutors called the texts “jarring in their callousness.”
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