Judge Called "Stupid"

Andrea Scott, 34, used identification belonging to someone else to forge credit card applications and charge over $20,000 worth of goods (including an $8,000 fur coat) before she was caught. She was in jail for two months awaiting trial when she was released from jail because of overcrowding.

Once she was out, she wrote letters to the police, to the judge, and to her victim of identity theft, telling them to "...enjoy paying my bills - I'm leaving town to find more victims..." and "...you must be required to take a stupidity test to be a cop or judge in Indy!"

She was arrested again the next day, and at her subsequent trial was sentenced to the maximum eight years in prison.

Copyright © 2003 Bankers' Hotline. Originally appeared in Bankers' Hotline, Vol. 12, No. 10, 1/03