We begin tonight, keeping them honest. Its a phrase we lose a lot on this program and one were passionate enough. Its never more more important than the story were bringing you tonight. Last night when we were covering the shooting in newtown, connecticut, anderson learned something that made us all sick to our stomach that people were trying to capitalize on the tragedy, fraudulently trying to capitalize on the victims family families. Tonight a woman has been arrested in connection with one of those alleged scams. Drew will join me with the details in a moment. First heres how we got to this point. Last week the uncle of 6yearold noah told anderson there were fake web site, facebook pages and emails going around asking for donations in noahs name. Drew griffin and david fitzpatrick, our produce, tracked one of those emails to the bronx, and her name is noah alba, and they went to her house. Here is what happened next. Hi. Are you ms. Alba . You set up donations on behalf of the newto
Thanks, piers. We begin tonight keeping them honest. Its a phrase we lose a lot on this program and one were passionate enough. Its never more more important than the story were bringing you tonight. Last night when we were kcoverig the shooting in newtown, connecticut, people were fraudulently trying to capitalize. Tonight a woman has been arrested in connection with one of those alleged scams. Drew will join me with the details in a moment. First heres houf we got to this point. Last week the uncle of 6yearold noah told anderson there were fake web site, facebook pages and emails going around asking for donations in noahs name. Drew griffin and David Fitzpatrick tracked one of those emails to the bronx and went to her house. Here is what happened next. Hi. Are you ms. Alba . You set up donations on behalf of the newtown tragedy . No. Here is your name and address on the email. Alba eventually agreed to let her voice be recorded and denied she had anything to do with the email having
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We begin tonight, keeping them honest. Its a phrase we use a lot on this program, and one were passionate enough. We have its important to point out dishonesty. Never more important than tonight. Last week covering the shooting in newtown, anderson learned something that made us all sick to our stomach that people were trying to capitalize on the tragedy, fraudulently trying to capitalize on the victims families. Thanks to reporting by anderson, drew griffin and producer David Fitzpatrick, tonight a woman has been arrested in connection with one of those alleged scams. Drew will join me with the details in a moment. First heres how we got to this point. Last week the uncle of 6yearold noah pozner who was among the 20 children killed at sandy hook elementary told anderson there were fake websites, facebook pages and e maims going around asking for donations in noahs name. Drew griffin and David Fitzpatrick tracked one of those emails to a woman in the bronx and went to her house. Her na
Right there. This is about noah pozners funeral. I never sent that. Take a look at it, maam. Its got your email all over it. Look at the second page. Gives your paypal account and a Bank Routing Number you say you set up. Thats not my paypal account. I mean, i have a paypal account like that. Is that your email . Which one . Says right there. Yeah, thats one of my gmails. Its your gomail act . Yeah, but i never set up funds. You should know the pozner family is very upset. But i never did anything to hurt them. Who sent this . I never sent this email out. I dont have a reason to send any email out. This is all so bizarre. Alba claimed she was being set up by enemies in, of all things, the crafting community. Alba has a business selli ing victorian picture frames. Its hard to brebelieve. Anderson and drew spoke about that last week, and she also asked for donations after Hurricane Sandy. I think its important to name this person again. Noelle alba is her name. Thats her name and her sto