CEBU CITY, Philippines — Two Filipinos, including a prominent personality in the pageant industry, are now facing 20 years in prison in the United States for defrauding aspiring American authors a total of $44 million (roughly P2.5 billion in today’s rates). The District Attorney of the Southern District California on January 15 announced the indictment of Gemma Traya Austin, Michael Cris Traya Sordilla, Bryan Navales Tarosa. Austin, Sordilla and Tarosa are facing charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy for operating a book publishing scam that ran for 10 years. Sordilla, 32, was the chair […]…
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