Mom’s Fight for Daughter’s Legacy Spurs Lender Crackdown
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Ingrid Robinson said she died Nov. 16, 1998, the day her only child overdosed on heroin in a Manhattan apartment. So nine years later, the single mother said, she had nothing left to lose when a lender cheated her out of $10,000 saved to create a legacy for her late daughter, Michelle.
Since then, she doggedly pursued the company that deprived her of that dream, emptying her bank account and courting foreclosure. In March, Robinson finally got what she called “Justice for Michelle.” Andrew Bogdanoff, 67, the founder of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Remington Financial Group, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for orchestrating an advance-fee scheme that defrauded 1,900 people out of more than $26 million.