Police say they’ve gotten to the bottom of the missing 29-thousand dollars from the City of Escanaba. And there was no wrongdoing on the part of any Escanaba city employee.
The Escanaba Public Safety Department and the FBI investigated, and determined it was a scam perpetrated by an elderly woman in California.
The city’s tax money was paid out to Proxima Management in December of 2020 as that company was working to redevelop the old Delta County Jail site.
It turns out that Proxima’s E-Mail was hacked, and the city paid what it thought was a legitimate bill. The FBI traced the IP address to South Africa, and looped back to this elderly woman in California. Authorities say that woman has been involved in other scams and they have arrested her.
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