Jail Time for ELITE CON WOMAN Who Scams $2.8 Million from Holocaust Survivor
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 7 October 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
A Florida con woman will spend more than four years in jail after stealing nearly $3m from a Holocaust survivor. Peaches Stergo, 36, scammed an aging Holocaust survivor living alone in New York City who signed up for an online dating service. There he met -Stergo.
The two chat back and forth nearly every day and Stergo opens up to him about her money problems, so the man writes her a check. Stergo continues to have problems. Then, over four years later, the man sends Stergo his life savings and loses his apartment.
All the while, Stergo is spending the money on luxury items, cars, boats, and two homes.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Debby Montgomery Johnson - Victims Advocate and Victim of Cyber Love Crime; International Speaker and Best Selling Author; Founder of The Woman Behind The Smile, Inc.
- Jeffrey Wolf - Denver-based Cyber Crime Attorney; Founder and Managing Partner at Wolf Law; Twitter: @JeffWolf5280 and @WolfLawLLC
- John Muffler - Former Chief Inspector for US Marshals, Strategic Advisor for Gavin de Becker & Associates
- Caryn Stark - Psychologist - Trauma and Crime Expert; Twitter: @carnpsych
- Susan Constantine - Body Language Expert (specializes in deception and detection), President of the Human Behavior Academy and President of the Human Behavior Lab; Author: “How to Spot a Liar in 7 Seconds or Less"
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| 0:00.0 | CRIME STORIES WITH NANCY GRACE |
| 0:13.0 | A Florida woman steals millions from a Holocaust survivor. |
| 0:21.0 | Can you even imagine that? |
| 0:23.0 | The man lives through the Holocaust. |
| 0:26.0 | Goes through life with all these horrible, horrible memories. |
| 0:31.0 | Alder's his life forever. |
| 0:34.0 | And now he runs into this disaster |
| 0:39.0 | and falls for her scam. |
| 0:42.0 | The woman steals nearly $3 million of his life savings. |
| 0:48.0 | Ah! Well, I've got an update for you. |
| 0:51.0 | She has had a date with Lady Justice. |
| 0:54.0 | And let me just tell you, Lady Justice is not the one that got a black eye. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is CRIME STORIES. |
| 1:02.0 | Thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series 6M111. |
| 1:06.0 | That's right, a Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivors' lives savings |
| 1:14.0 | by posing as a love interest. |
| 1:17.0 | And then live the high life, that's right, living lavishly of the $2.8 million she stole |
| 1:25.0 | just got sentenced to over four years in prison. |
| 1:29.0 | Take that woman, Peaches Sturgo, 36 of Champion's Gate, Florida, |
| 1:37.0 | was described by the judge. It was Judge Edgar de Ramos. |
| 1:42.0 | He described her as, quote, unspeakably cruel and motivated by greed. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, I'm happy she got jail time four years, |
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