Press them just a bit and they'll talk about world peace and the need to feed starving children.
Authorities
accuse Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates, Miss Pennsylvania U.S. International,
of casting aside those attributes and faking cancer in an elaborate
scheme that raised thousands of dollars.
Weaver-Gates led everyone to believe she had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in March 2013.
In the years since, she took part in fundraisers to pay for her treatment. Police told CNN affiliate WJAC the most recent event was held in April and raised $14,000.
A police investigation found no evidence that Weaver-Gates had ever been under a doctor's care for cancer.
State
Police Trooper Thomas Stock called her efforts to make people believe
she had cancer "an elaborate scheme," telling WJAC that Weaver-Gates
would have relatives drive her to Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
They would wait in the lobby for hours for her return, while she went to another part of the hospital. Police: Pennsylvania beauty queen jailed after faking cancer - CNN.com
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