{"id":357228,"date":"2015-05-27T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=357228"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:41:03","slug":"marshall-woman-sentenced-for-adoption-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=357228","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Woman Sentenced for Adoption Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/FederalCourthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/FederalCourthouse-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FederalCourthouse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-357230\" \/><\/a>KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) &#8211; A Texas woman was sentenced to five years in federal prison for defrauding a Kansas couple in an adoption scheme. Thirty-five-year-old Chrystal Marie Rippey, of Marshall, Texas, was sentenced Tuesday for two counts of wire fraud. Federal prosecutors say Rippey admitted that she took $22,225 from a Shawnee, Kansas, couple who believed she was pregnant with twins and who wanted to adopt the children. The money was intended to pay for Rippey&#8217;s living expenses. Prosecutors say the transactions were based on Rippey&#8217;s false statements that she was pregnant and wanted to put her twins up for adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) &#8211; A Texas woman was sentenced to five years in federal prison for defrauding a Kansas couple in an adoption scheme. Thirty-five-year-old Chrystal Marie Rippey, of Marshall, Texas, was sentenced Tuesday for two counts of wire fraud. Federal prosecutors say Rippey admitted that she took $22,225 from a Shawnee, Kansas, couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=357228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marshall Woman Sentenced for Adoption Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":357230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 16:19:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357266,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357228\/revisions\/357266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}