Turbodog
04-13-07, 07:56 PM
A stripper owner:rofl: :saywhat:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/14/14harkness.html?cxtype=rss
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By Steven Kreytak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, April 13, 2007
A former Yellow Rose stripper who admitted to conspiring to embezzle $1 million to fund a NASCAR auto racing team run out of her Round Rock home is back in Austin for the first time since she fled the country to avoid going to prison in 2004.
Fatemeh Angela Harkness, 30, is set to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge at 2 p.m. today. She faces up to five years in prison. Her sentencing date has not been set.
Harkness arrived in Austin from New York Thursday evening accompanied by U.S. marshals. On Sunday, Harkness flew to New York from the United Arab Emirates — where she has spent the past three years — after contacting U.S. marshals in Austin to arrange her surrender.
Harkness had struck an agreement with the government to plead guilty in January 2004 to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in exchange for her potential testimony against Gary D. Jones, a Wells Fargo banker who co-founded the racing team Angela's Motorports. The pair entered cars in the Busch Series, a second-tier racing circuit, in 2002 after recruiting sponsors and noted driver Mike McLaughlin. The team folded before the 2003 season, and the FBI started investigating. Harkness later disappeared.
An international search by federal officials led to her arrest in Dubai, where officials seized her passport so she couldn't leave the country. But U.S. authorities could not arrange her extradition because the United States and the United Arab Emirates do not have an extradition treaty.
Court documents show that Jones used his position at the bank to secure fraudulent loans used to fund Angela's Motorsports. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison. With good time credit, he could be released in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/14/14harkness.html?cxtype=rss
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By Steven Kreytak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, April 13, 2007
A former Yellow Rose stripper who admitted to conspiring to embezzle $1 million to fund a NASCAR auto racing team run out of her Round Rock home is back in Austin for the first time since she fled the country to avoid going to prison in 2004.
Fatemeh Angela Harkness, 30, is set to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge at 2 p.m. today. She faces up to five years in prison. Her sentencing date has not been set.
Harkness arrived in Austin from New York Thursday evening accompanied by U.S. marshals. On Sunday, Harkness flew to New York from the United Arab Emirates — where she has spent the past three years — after contacting U.S. marshals in Austin to arrange her surrender.
Harkness had struck an agreement with the government to plead guilty in January 2004 to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in exchange for her potential testimony against Gary D. Jones, a Wells Fargo banker who co-founded the racing team Angela's Motorports. The pair entered cars in the Busch Series, a second-tier racing circuit, in 2002 after recruiting sponsors and noted driver Mike McLaughlin. The team folded before the 2003 season, and the FBI started investigating. Harkness later disappeared.
An international search by federal officials led to her arrest in Dubai, where officials seized her passport so she couldn't leave the country. But U.S. authorities could not arrange her extradition because the United States and the United Arab Emirates do not have an extradition treaty.
Court documents show that Jones used his position at the bank to secure fraudulent loans used to fund Angela's Motorsports. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison. With good time credit, he could be released in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.