For the second time in two years, a judge has ordered Buckingham socialite Claire Risoldi to start serving her jail sentence for her conviction in a $13 million insurance fraud scheme.
But Risoldi still isn’t expected to turn herself in for at least another year, depending on what an appeals court decides.
The 74-year-old Buckingham resident did get some good news Friday at her first court appearance since she was sentenced in 2019 to serve 11-½ to 23 months in Bucks County jail.
She no longer has to repay insurer AIG $10.42 million to pay back fire-related claims it paid the family for a 2013 fire at the estate that bears her name.
Re-Trial of Paul Ross 9:45 pm
A man Convicted of First Degree Murder nearly 2 Decades ago will again have his day in Court. The Courts are preparing for the long-anticipated re-trial of convicted murderer ‘Paul Ross’.
A Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that Paul Ross didn’t receive a fair trial back in 2011. Ten years later, the re-trial process has finally come to fruition. Paul Aaron Ross was sentenced in 2005 for the death of Tina Miller in 2004. However, a panel in 2011 said Ross’ Defense Team didn’t have enough time to build their case, and a 2012 panel upheld that ruling. Then, Blair County District Attorney Richard Consiglio’s Appeal was denied in 2013, officially opening the door for a re-trial.
If the store holds a winning ticket in the mistake pile, it is entitled to claim the winnings.
Seltzer arrived at her Acme shift at the customer service desk a few hours after the transaction that produced the mistake ticket. The Match 6 drawing occurred at 7 p.m. About an hour later, Seltzer scanned through the mistake pile and found the winning ticket, a practice she had done in the past.
Instead of leaving the ticket to be processed by the store coordinator, Seltzer took $10 from her purse and rang up a transaction for the same price as the customer s original, canceled purchase of the tickets. She was still on the clock at the time and never consulted with anyone at Acme about purchasing the mistake ticket. She signed the back of the ticket and submitted it to the Pennsylvania Lottery.