Woman who ate glass in restaurant, supermarket scams gets four years in prison
By adamg - 12/21/10 - 9:35 pm
Mary Evano, a former Weymouth resident who scammed restaurants, hotels and supermarkets in Boston and elsewhere out of more than $200,000 in bogus glass-in-food claims, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison, the US Attorney's office reports.
The FBI says Evano actually did eat glass repeatedly between 1997 and 2005 - but at home, so she could show the food outlets hospital bills for hospital care - often for bloody stools and vomit. Hubby Ronald Evano, who pleaded guilty in 2007, was sentenced himself to more than five years in federal prison. In addition to the $200,000 in payments, the government says, the couple also racked up $100,000 in unpaid hospital bills.
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I would like to know the
I would like to know the thought process that ended up with the idea that it was ok to eat shards of glass.
I think I would find that interesting.
What.....?
everyone's got an angle. Some people collect cans,theirs was eating glass.
A defense of mental defect might have
won me over if I was on her jury. Hard to believe she's really playing with a full deck.
Not quite
Yes, clearly mental illness here. A large percentage of people who commit crimes have some mental health issues; lack of respect for others, lack of empathy, lack of impulse control, etc. But the law doesn't state that someone must exhibit great mental health in order to be convicted of a crime. If it did, our prisons would be nearly empty. The law states that someone can be absolved of criminal responsibility if s/he didn't understand right from wrong at the time of the incident, as in, the person was experiencing serious psychotic symptoms. In these sorts of cases though, the person often has ongoing such issues, so s/he would be confined for everyone's safety until the issues are treated. It isn't like it's just a free pass to do whatever the hell you want.
Shards O' Glass
Maybe she watched this commercial during the Super Bowl a few years ago?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQ4JNpXPTY
A Toast
Let's all raise our glasses and say, Here's Mud Up Their Noses . . . Amen.
Well-
-Glad the FBI is on such cases. What would we do without them? I wonder what else the FBI super cops will be up to when their new digs in Chelsea are ready . . . their new "office space" which will be the size of TWO HOME DEPOTS.