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Elizabeth, Maplewood Scammers Bought Rolls Royce, Other Fancy Cars With Bad Checks Elizabeth, Maplewood Scammers Bought Rolls Royce, Other Fancy Cars With Bad Checks
Elizabeth, Maplewood Scammers Bought Rolls Royce, Other Fancy Cars With Bad Checks An Elizabeth man and a Maplewood resident were both found guilty last week of using phony checks and money orders to obtain a small fleet of luxury cars and to pay off a large mortgage balance, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey said. Germaine Howard King, a 43-year-old Elizabeth resident, used counterfeit money orders he created on a computer with the assistance of a woman named Melissa Reynolds, who previously pleaded guilty to fraud. The two tried to pay off two Mercedes Benzes using the money orders as well as a $432,000 mortgage. The financial institution mistakenly accepted the bogus m…

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by Paul Milo