Michigan mother at the center of a national adoption fraud scheme is claiming sheâs innocent despite a guilty plea âShe was just continuing her manipulation,' victim says. By: Heather Catallo and last updated 2021-02-11 05:53:56-05 (WXYZ) â A Macomb County mother at the center of a national adoption fraud scheme is claiming sheâs innocent despite a guilty plea in the case that landed her behind bars. Tara Lynn Lee is serving a 10-year prison sentence at the Aliceville Federal Correctional Institution in Alabama. Related: Lee admitted as part of her plea deal that she made up fake birth moms and told adoptive couples that babies had died when they never existed.