Word: vagharã
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...Vaghar??€”who, according to friends at Harvard, frequented final clubs and partook in the undergraduate social scene before leaving the Extension School—admitted to running a real estate scam in which she used made-up e-mail addresses and fake bank accounts when subletting apartments to unsuspecting tenants. Over the course of a year, she allegedly defrauded at least 15 victims out of tens of thousands of dollars...
According to Shannon S. Christmas ’04, a victim of Vaghar??€™s scam who was present at the Sept. 9 hearing where she was sentenced, Vaghar, accompanied by her parents, remained unemotional as she spoke to District Court Judge Jonathan Brant...
Several of Vaghar??€™s victims expressed disappointment that she received no jail time...
...Vaghar??€™s attorney, Karen S. Shea, a lawyer at McGrath & Kane, did not return repeated requests for comment...
...Vaghar??€™s alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.org, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories—such as the death or sickness of one of her parents—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...