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Phony "Captain" Scott Shields Story Revisited:
If reporters had checked their facts and not simply regurgitated what Shields told them and posted to his internet site then he would not have been able to do what he did. Three newspapers and 4 reporters who checked their facts and got it right are:

NY POST: "Fraud Probe Hounds Rescuer" by Phil Recchia and Brad Hamilton
www.nypost.com/.../regionalnews/fraud_probe_hounds_rescuer_regionalnews_philip_recchia_and_brad_hamilton.htm

NY POST: "9/11 Hero Charged in 40G Scam" by Brad Hamilton and Ginger Otis
www.nypost.com/.../9_11_hero_charged_in_40g_scam_regionalnews_brad_hamilton_______and_ginger_otis.htm

TRENTON TIMES:
"N.Y. indicts 9/11 responder: W. Windsor man is accused of bilking FEMA out of nearly $40,000"
By Darryl R. Isherwood, New Jersey On-Line, July 19, 2007

I applaud you in encouraging students to check their facts with primary sources--and cross checking!

thanks for trying to get the word out about this impostor. if only we could get the times to take some interest, and maybe earn the respect that they seem to take for granted.

When I read the story about Tania Head I had a feeling of deja vu. About 20 years ago, a woman named Judy Lewis (her real name may have been Marusha Klemm) got a job as a nurse for my Father in law, by saying that she had a daughter at Princeton, my FIL's alma mater. She claimed among other things to various people and the neighbors that she got the job because she had an affair with my husband, her husband was a POW, she had special goverment plates because of this , her boyfriend was test pilot for Airbus, she had a driver's license in every state, her daughter was a Princeton cheerleader. We found that none of this was true. But she did give my mother in law drugs (she became her nurse after my FIL died), sold all her designer clothes and shoes at a thrift store. After my MIL died we saw that she had taken many things from the house. This woman looked much like Tania...short, homely, an accent that she said was Ukrainian. I have never met anyone who could lie with such conviction. This woman would probably be about 55 now. I am curious if this is the same woman. Are there any facts about where she is really from and what other aliases does she have?

He and his siter pleaded guilty to fraud - http://www.nj.com/centraljersey/index.ssf/2008/03/w_windsor_man_pleads_guilty_in.html