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Good morning and thanks for joining me for rise in crime. Your morning caffeine hit,

All About Crime. I'm Mama Jules, and let's take a look at a two-fold criminal charge. One of the phases was settled years ago. The second phase was settled late last week, and a West Virginia

pharmacist will now spend her life behind bars. 42-year-old Natalie Cochran and her husband,

Michael, who was near the same age as Natalie when they met and married, had developed what

some would say is the American dream. Together they have two children,

Nicole and Ashton. Together they lived comfortable in their upper class world. And together,

they owned two businesses, technology management solutions or TMS and Tactical Solutions Group,

or TSG.

And I'm going to say right off the bat, the vagueness of the titles of the businesses left me asking, are these made up companies?

Well, it turns out they kind of were.

Natalie seemed to be taking money and property as collateral from individuals, and then also a financial institution, and then also several small companies.

So she's gathering assets and cash all over the place with the promise that if these investors poured money into TSG and TMS, she would take that investment and reinvestment into government

contracts that her company could facilitate and secure. She's saying, hey, my two companies are going to

make millions. If you invest, you can have your piece of the pie, your portion of the millions.

And like I said,

it's pretty vague. After my research, it's still vague. TMS was allegedly involved in government wide acquisition contracts. Okay, that's a company that provides costeffective and innovative solutions for information technology requirements.

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