Woman pleads guilty in adoption scheme
NEW HAVEN (AP) — A Macomb County woman has pleaded guilty to fraud in a scheme to collect money from couples who wanted to adopt children.
Federal prosecutors say Tara Lee of New Haven wasn’t licensed to arrange adoptions.
Investigators say she at times matched more than one set of adoptive parents to a birth mother.
She also matched couples to birth mothers who didn’t exist.
In her plea agreement Tuesday, Lee admitted collecting at least $250,000 since 2014.
In 2018, Lee told a client that a birth mother named RaShaunda had been shot and killed and the baby had died. But RaShaunda didn’t exist.
Lee could face eight years or more in prison when she returns to Detroit federal court on Nov. 19.
Books by Sotomayor, Gorsuch to debut in September
The U.S. Supeme Court’s long recess doesn’t end until October, but just as students get back to hitting the books with their return to school, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch will be pitching them. Each has a book due out in September.
Sotomayor’s 32-page children’s book, “Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You” will be published on Sept. 3.
It’s about kids with life challenges such as diabetes, which Sotomayor was diagnosed with as a child.
The book is her fourth in her 10 years on the court and, like the others, will be released in both English and Spanish.
Gorsuch’s book, “A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” comes out a week later.
The 352-page book is Gorsuch’s reflections, speeches and essays on the Constitution.
The title comes from a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Gorsuch’s book is his first as a justice. He wrote “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia” in 2006.
To promote his book, Gorsuch will speak at two presidential libraries in September: the Richard Nixon Library in California and the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas.
He’ll also give a book talk at the National Archives in Washington.
Sotomayor, meanwhile, will be making September appearances in suburban Atlanta and Chicago.``
Time capsule from 50 years ago has nothing inside
DERRY, N.H. (AP) — Officials in a New Hampshire town are trying to figure out how a recently opened time capsule from 50 years ago has nothing in it.
Library director Cara Potter in Derry tells WMUR-TV that since she started there five years ago, the safe has been sitting on a shelf.
Before that, it was kept at the old municipal building in town.
The combination was on the back of the safe. Potter said it took several tries to get it open recently on the 50th anniversary of when it was sealed in 1969.
But it was empty.
No one has a list of what was originally put inside.
Officials said they have no idea who could have opened it and taken the items.
They even speculated that nothing was put in there in the first place.
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