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Charlene Corley

Charlene Corley is an American fraudster who defrauded the United State's Department of Defense with her sister as an accomplice. Corley being the co-owner of C&D distributors “which made small hardware components for ships, plumbing equipments and electronics made a deal with the U.S Defense Department for shipping then to its troop in Iraq and Afghanistan”. One day during a shipment ,a wrong invoice was produced which gave a profit of $5k to Corley; it revealed a hole in the system which paid any cost as shipping charge for shipment without asking questions.

Corley then charged the shipments with illegitimate prices and got paid from the defense for nine years until she charged about million dollars for shipping of 19 cents washer which caught the defense department's attention. “She and her sister were convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in the year 2009”. Before the conviction began her sister committed suicide. Corley plead guilty of her charges and was sentenced to six and half years of imprisonment.