CLEVELAND (AP) - Prosecutors say a Cleveland woman who was investigated for fundraisers connected to false claims that she was pregnant and had cancer won’t face felony charges.
Forty-five-year-old Dawn Brown was accused of making false claims on online fundraising pages that got hundreds of dollars in donations.
An assistant Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County prosecutor tells Cleveland.com that investigators didn’t find evidence of fraud to merit trying to prosecute her for a felony and that it seemed to be a case of Brown embellishing the truth.
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Brown married a Cleveland police officer last November. That 24-year veteran officer retired from the department in February, after he was involved in a crash and the police internal affairs unit began investigating if he knew his wife had lied about being pregnant or having cancer.
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This story has been corrected to show the husband was a 24-year veteran officer, not 24 years old.
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Information from: cleveland.com, http://www.cleveland.com
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