Monday, December 04, 2006

Justice is served

Just got this in my inbox:
On Thursday, November 29, 2006, in Syracuse, New York, Martha Ivery, aka Kelly O'Donnell, dba Press-Tige Publishing and New Millennium Publishing, was sentenced to 65 months in Federal prison, plus 3 years' probation. In December 2005, she had pleaded guilty to all counts of a 17-count indictment: 15 counts of mail fraud and acts against the United States as a principal in a conspiracy, one count of improper use of an electronic access device (legalese for "credit-card fraud not involving the mails"), and one count of false sworn testimony in a bankruptcy proceeding. Sentencing was initially set for April 28, 2006, then postponed to August 14, then postponed again to September 24th--and then postponed yet again, to November 29. The final postponement has been coupled with a change of venue, from Albany to Syracuse.

... Between 1998 and 2003, Writer Beware received scores of complaints about Martha Ivery, a.k.a. Kelly O'Donnell. Ivery ran several fee-charging literary agencies (Kelly O'Donnell Literary Agency, Inc., O'Donnell Literary Services, Inc., Writers Information USAgency), as well as two vanity publishing operations (Press-Tige Publishing and New Millennium Publishing). ...

Posted 30 Nov 2006 13:34; see full article at www.sfwa.org/beware/general.html#Alert

Unfortunately, for every scammer sent to the slammer, it seems like there are a dozen more ready to take her place. And hundreds of suckers ready to fork over their hard-earned money.

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