It wouldn't be hyperbolic to say that all the grifters we've come across have been pretty, pretty, pretty shady characters. One such gold-digging, elderly-pillaging con woman, Cher Thompson, was sentenced to a seven-year prison term this week, after she pleaded guilty to fleecing more than $100,000 from two disabled, lonely old men, including one who suffered from a traumatic brain injury. She apologized for being "such an inconvenience to them," but if she could turn back time, would she? And what screams apologetic like wearing a skin tight purple, off-the-shoulder top to your court hearing (as she does in the pic of the News site)?
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