Former NJ beauty pageant winner gets a year in jail for writing bad checks
By APSaturday, May 9, 2009
Former NJ beauty queen gets year in jail
NEWARK, N.J. — A former New Jersey beauty pageant winner has been sentenced to a year in jail for bouncing more than $70,000 in bad checks to purchase antique furniture.
Heather “Hedy” Di Carlo also was given five years’ probation Friday in state Superior Court in Newark.
Di Carlo won the Mrs. New Jersey crown in 2005.
She pleaded guilty in January to theft by deception and writing bad checks. Her attorney, Paul Bergrin, says she fell into debt after a divorce.
Bergrin says Di Carlo will probably serve about 60 days of her sentence.
The judge cited Di Carlo’s previous arrests for theft dating to 1999 and called her “a master of deception.”
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September 22, 2009: 8:16 pm
I really believe in the power of pageantry. I think what it develops in young women is amazing. This unfortunately is not a fair representation of what a pageant really develops inside a lady. My prayers go out to her. It has to be very distressing. |
Steven Roddy