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☆ U.S. Judge Backs U.K. Request to Extradite ‘Irish Heiress’ Who Swindled Producer
  + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Isabella Kwai | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Her elaborate schemes, among them posing as the heiress to an Irish fortune, swindled people out of huge sums and left Marianne Smyth with two felony convictions. Ms. Smyth became known as the “Irish heiress” after one of her former victims, Johnathan Walton, started a podcast in 2021 about his experience. The two became close friends after meeting in 2013, and Mr. Walton, a reality television producer, said that Ms. Smyth had claimed to be from a prominent Irish family. But she was facing money problems, she told him, and was battling relatives in Ireland over an inheritance worth tens of millions of dollars. Sympathetic, Mr. Walton lent her money and the use of his credit card, an amount that totaled more than $63,000.
Persons: Marianne Smyth, Smyth, ”, Johnathan Walton, Walton Organizations: U.S . Marshals Service Locations: American, Northern Ireland, U.S, Maine, Irish, Ireland
☆ An ‘Irish Heiress’ Conned Him. He Started a Podcast to Track Her Down.
  + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Isabella Kwai | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
She posed as a down-on-her-luck heiress who was battling with her Irish family over an exorbitant inheritance. But Marianne Smyth, who was born in Maine, was not an Irish heiress, and there was no fortune. Now Ms. Smyth, 54, is facing more accusations, this time from the authorities in the United Kingdom, who are seeking her extradition from the United States. The charges, for fraud and theft, date from March 2008 to October 2010, when Ms. Smyth was living in Northern Ireland, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Maine. The arrest was “a miracle,” said Johnathan Walton, a Los Angeles-based reality television producer who has made it his personal mission to expose Ms. Smyth, after she was convicted of stealing more than $63,000 from him.
Persons: Marianne Smyth, Smyth, ”, Johnathan Walton Organizations: U.S . Marshals Service Locations: Maine, Irish, United Kingdom, United States, Northern Ireland, Los Angeles
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