Thieves Living Amongst Us

While going to church this past Sunday with hubby, I was reading the newspaper. I took notice of the following article, and was flabbergasted by what had gone on at a certain wedding.

Prince George's Fairy Tale Unravels For Woman at Center of Fraud Probe - washingtonpost.com:

Joy Jenise Jackson glided down the aisle of the Mayflower Hotel ballroom wearing her handmade oriental silk wedding gown and tiara with Swarovski crystal rhinestones. Trailing her was a 42-foot train, it, too, adorned with bling.

The June 2006 reception was equally glitzy, captured, like the wedding, on video. Patti LaBelle serenaded Jackson, 39, a former exotic dancer turned mortgage broker, and her groom, Kurt Fordham, 38. Later, the video shows the couple and their 360 guests sipping Moët and Cristal champagne and dining on lobster and shrimp fried rice, followed by four wedding cakes. As gifts, the couple gave one of their attendants a Porsche, another a house, and a third a $10,000 check, wedding guests said.

The price tag for the nuptials, Jackson told friends, was nearly $800,000.

Take a look again at the numbers at the end of the sentence above. Eight hundred thousand dollars. Dayum . . . And what's even more galling, she may have defrauded people out of their mortgages and used these ill-begotten proceeds, some of which went to pay for this over-the-top wedding - I mean, come on . . . who needs 4 wedding cakes???

I'm now moving along very well with the shawl and I'm now in the interesting part - working on Chart 3. I should . . . should have enough yarn to finish this shawl. Because I don't think I would be able to get this color anymore and I don't remember where I got it from, in any case.