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Antelope Valley woman in ‘Cocoon’ elderly fraud scheme gets year in fed prison

by Debbie L. SklarJanuary 6, 2016January 6, 2016

An Antelope Valley woman was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for her role in a scheme that held out the false promise of roles in bogus remakes of the movies “Cocoon” and “On Golden Pond” as bait in an identity-theft scam targeting senior citizens. Dena Buttram of Littlerock — who uses the last […]

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