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...company's American strategy, has been all but invisible. He may be practicing what the Japanese call fugenjikko - no words, only action - but silence is deafening here. "I don't know how you cannot be available for comment when you have a crisis of this magnitude," says William Furlow of Furlow Corporate Communications...
...Furlow pleaded guilty last month to three counts of mail fraud--part of an agreement with federal prosecutors who had indicted her in April on 20 counts. The charges followed a yearlong FBI investigation in which Furlow was found to have collected approximately $215,000 in fees from unwitting couples, according to the indictment. (Furlow did not respond to TIME's requests for an interview.) Her attorney, Hugh Clark, offered this speculation to a Philadelphia TV station: "I think she started off with the idea that she wanted to place prospective parents with their adoptive children. Obviously at some point...
...Furlow did successfully place two babies with adoptive parents. But in the vast majority of cases, according to the indictment, she spent most of her time telling stories. Even when she was not trying to extract more money from clients, she created new, gratuitous dramas, her victims say. "She enjoyed controlling other people's lives," Kiser-Mostrom says now. "I think it gave her some kind of thrill...
Experts say the best way to avoid getting conned is to be skeptical. They suggest calling government licensing agencies and the Better Business Bureau. But one Furlow victim, John Nakai of Littleton, Colo., did both. State employees told him they don't track facilitators, and the Better Business Bureau for Eastern Pennsylvania had (and has had to this day) no complaints about...
...sentencing in September, Furlow could receive up to 15 years in prison--though prosecutors expect she will get far less. Dozens of her victims plan to attend. The court will not have room for all the heartbreak...