A Florida girl has been arrested for defrauding an 87-365 days-dilapidated Holocaust survivor of practically $3 million, authorities announced Wednesday.

Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champions Gate, Florida, has been charged with one count of wire fraud after allegedly coercing hundreds of hundreds from an unnamed Ny man between 2017 and 2021.

“The defendant callously preyed on a senior citizen merely looking out for companionship, defrauding him of his existence savings,” Michael J. Driscoll, the assistant director to blame of the FBI’s New York field screech of enterprise acknowledged when announcing the payment on Wednesday, reported CNN.

Stergo, who also goes by the title “Alice,” met the particular person on a dating net site about six or seven years within the past, consistent with an indictment from the Justice Department.

“Stergo told the sufferer that she had settled a lawsuit interesting injuries in a automotive accident nonetheless that her lawyer would no longer originate the settlement funds except he obtained a explicit amount of cash,” provides the indictment.

“In Could 2017, financial institution recordsdata level to the Victim wrote his first check to Stergo for $25,000,” it continues.

From that moment on, Stergo introduced about the particular person to write “practically monthly checks” to Stergo, “most regularly in increments of $50,000.”

Once every check modified into once deposited, the girl told the sufferer that her financial institution “wished extra money” or else her sage would perhaps well be frozen and the sufferer would no longer be paid motivate, reads the indictment.

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In October 2021, the particular person told his son about the affiliation at which level he stopped sending money.

“‘Alice,’ the defendant, modified into once motivated to have interaction within the fraud plot to enhance herself,” provides the indictment. “She has lived a lifetime of luxury with the hundreds of hundreds she obtained from the fraud: she sold a home in a gated community, a house, a ship, and pretty loads of automobiles, including a Corvette and a Suburban.”

“At some stage all over the fraud, Stergo also took costly trips, staying at locations just like the Ritz Carlton, and spent many tens of hundreds of bucks on costly meals, gold cash and bars, jewellery, Rolex watches, and designer clothing from stores like Tiffany, Ralph Lauren, Neiman Marcus, Louis Vuitton, and Hermes,” it continues.

“The sufferer misplaced his existence savings and modified into once forced to present up his dwelling” in consequence, the indictment reads.