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Memphis, Tenn., Woman Indicted in Alleged Car Marketing Scheme.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2002
By Sam Youngman, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 13--It's been said, if it sounds too good to be true, then it usually is.
Many people across the country received a lesson in that proverb after Gwendolyn Baker, 51, of Memphis, was indicted Monday by the United States Attorney's office in Kansas City, Mo., on multiple charges of fraud.
Baker, James R. Nichols, 26, of Carson, Calif., and Robert Gomez, 27, of Bell, Calif., allegedly scammed hundreds of people across the country in what U.S. Attorney, Todd Graves, is calling the "Miracle Cars Scheme."
According to Graves, Baker took orders for cars at discount prices to be sold to people of strong religious faith as part of a will that...
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