No Shame

This boggles my mind and to be blunt really ticks me off! A man who collected $68,000 from a charity by falsely claiming his boyfriend died in the World Trade Center attacks has pleaded guilty to grand theft.
Patric Henn, 29, entered his plea Wednesday and admitted making up the story to steal from the American Red Cross. What in the heck is the Red Cross doing giving donated money to unmarried, unrelated people anyway? It gets better... Read on.
Henn could face up to 15 years in prison at sentencing scheduled for Jan. 19. He told Circuit Judge Marc Gold that that he thought pleading guilty to the charge was the right thing to do. He suddenly wants to do the right thing. The plea was not part of a deal with prosecutors. Henn is accused of telling the Red Cross, the media and others that his domestic partner, Jeff John Anderson, was on his way to visit a brokerage firm in the World Trade Center about 45 minutes before the 2001 attacks.
Anderson's name does not appear on any official victims lists and authorities do not believe such a person exists. What???? Nobody checked this out before they tossed $68,000 to this guy! Henn was arrested in June 2003 in Dallas and transferred to Florida. Henn's attorney, Dorothy Ferraro, said she will ask for the first-time felony offender to receive probation. She declined to discuss Henn's plea. This guy has no morals, no compassion for real victims and no shame what so ever. As well, the Red Cross better do a self examination on who they choose to "help" or generous people will not so easily part with their money.

Here is a bonus from the Scumbag file: In the first arrest in a national crackdown on bogus tsunami relief promotions, the FBI took a Carrick man into custody this morning and charged him with ripping off donors through an e-mail solicitation. Matthew Schmieder, 24, was arrested early this morning and appeared before a federal magistrate this afternoon in U.S. District Court, Downtown. Schmieder is accused of sending out spam solicitations for relief money by copying part of the Web site of a legitimate charity in his e-mails. The FBI recently said it was investigating dozens of bogus Web sites that prey on potential tsunami donors by mimicking sites of well-known charities.