She develops a Machiavellian deception on her serious illness for years

“Charity is a fatherland when it is true”, said Henry de Montherlant. Except that in this mind-boggling story, it was the disease that wasn’t real. Indeed, this 37-year-old American made believe thatshe had cancer for 7 years. This in order to be able to collect donations within the framework of charity campaigns. Amanda Riley has raised over $100,000 in donations from charity events organized to help her fight cancer.

Indeed, Amanda Riley had claimed that she suffered from a Hodgkin’s lymphoma since 2012. The New York Post indicates that she had calls for donations in order to pay for pseudo treatments. It was on her blog that she led charitable hearts in recounting his daily difficulties because of cancer. She had even posted a photo of herself with short hair, referring to chemo treatment. This 37-year-old woman even falsified medical documents to convince even the most skeptical.

Even his family was fooled

Amanda Riley’s deception obviously worked very well. After all, even her family was convinced that she was ill. She even had brought an action in court against a person who doubted her. His story worked so well that an auction was even organized to help him. This sale included a guitar of the musicians country LeAnn Rimes and John Michael Montgomery.

After the deception was discovered by theInternal Revenue Service in 2019, Amanda Riley was sentenced to 5 years in prison by a court on April 3. She was also ordered to pay $105,513 in reimbursement. She will also have to be monitored for 3 years after her release.

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