Kansas City Woman Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in Staged Rape, Assault

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'Kansas City, Mo - infoZine - Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a wire fraud conspiracy involving a scheme between two women to hire a man to assault them. The woman was hoping to force a higher settlement of her sexual harassment lawsuit against a former employer.

Lindsey D. Crawford, 23, of Kansas City, waived her right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith this morning to a federal information that charges her with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

By pleading guilty today, Crawford admitted that she was involved in a scheme to pay a man to physically and sexually assault her and another woman. The assault occurred on Nov. 25, 2008, in the garage at Crawford’s residence. Afterward, Crawford made false reports to law enforcement authorities concerning the staged assault, falsely claiming to have been assaulted by two unknown masked men. As a result, law enforcement authorities spent a substantial amount of time and money investigating the nonexistent crime.'