PAIR STOLE £150K IN VIAGRA FRAUD

Office manager Carol Jones stole more than £150,000 from her bosses to fund a luxury lifestyle in a scam dubbed "keeping up with the Joneses".
Although the landscaping company run by her husband Jonathan, a former Tory councillor, was crippled with debt, the pair went on £5,000 Caribbean holidays and funded a £3,250 wedding reception.
They drove a Mercedes and Land Rover, bought designer jewellery and spent £5,000 on granite kitchen worktops plus a plasma TV.


But the scam was uncovered in spring 2007 when her bosses at Pfizer - the drugs firm that makes Viagra - found Jones had been siphoning cash to her husband's firm TIL Developments.
At Manchester Crown Court the couple, of Winsford, Cheshire, who are divorcing, were found guilty of fraud. Carol was jailed for 16 months, her husband got 19.
Det Con Neil Slater, of West Didsbury CID, said: "Their grasping knew no bounds. This wasn't so much keeping up with the Joneses - it was more like the Joneses trying to keep up with everyone else."


Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/07/11/pair-stole-150k-in-viagra-fraud-115875-22404299/#ixzz0tYQFNXwW
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