Alaina Urquhart
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Fraud nobody and live a life out of federal prison.
Just please do that.
And not have an alias.
They said, we'll do that.
They said, we'll file your taxes.
Melissa didn't talk to any of these people, though.
Instead, she came up with all her different aliases.
There was Melissa Ann Weeks, Melissa Ann Friedrich, I think, Melissa Ann Shepard, and Melissa Ann Stewart.
She loves first name, middle name.
Last name is where it gets hairy.
So she ended up serving a five-year sentence in a Toronto prison for some of those scams.
But in 1991, she saw an opportunity for a new scam when she met a man named Gordon Stewart.
He was a Prince Edward Island native whose circumstances would eventually sound very familiar in the context of Melissa's life.
So Gordon Stewart, like I said, there's a lot of sadness to this.