Woman sentenced to prison after ‘Tom Hardy’ church fraud scheme

Woman sentenced to prison after ‘Tom Hardy’ church fraud scheme

A woman in Pennsylvania has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud and money laundering, in a scheme that included tricking a Catholic church into wiring $466,000 to a shell corporation.The woman’s attorney argued that she was the victim of a romantic scheme, believing herself to be in an online relationship with British actor Tom Hardy, and carrying out fraudulent activities at the request of a scam artist posing online as Hardy.But a retired …