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		</div><h6 id="skip-to-content" tabindex="-1"><span style="color: #382d2d;">Newly married woman accused of trying to cash $1 million in checks from 77-year-old husband’s account </span></h6>
<h6 tabindex="-1"><span style="color: #382d2d;">Lin Halfon, 26, is accused of trying to deceive and defraud her much older husband, after just four months of marriage </span></h6>
<h6 tabindex="-1"><span style="color: #382d2d;">Investigators allege Halfon tried to cash a $1 million cashier’s check at a Amscot branch last month</span></h6>
<h6 tabindex="-1"><span style="color: #382d2d;">Halfon, a native of Israel, was arrested at Tampa International Airport earlier this month </span></h6>
<h6 tabindex="-1"><span style="color: #382d2d;">She&#8217;s charged with charges of money laundering, organized fraud and exploitation of an elderly person</span></h6>
<h6 tabindex="-1"><span style="color: #382d2d;">Her bail was set at $1 million</span></h6>
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<h6 data-page="1"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-339941" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Lin-Halfon-2.jpg" alt="Lin Halfon 2" width="676" height="447" /><strong>Accused of fraud:</strong> <strong>Lin Halfon, 26, [photo], is accused of trying to defraud her 77-year-old husband of $1million after four months o marriage</strong></h6>
<p data-page="1">A newly married 26-year-old woman is accused of trying to cash $1 million in checks from her 77-year-old husband&#8217;s account.<br />
Lin Halfon and Richard Rappaport married about four months later. Last week, Halfon was arrested and charged with defrauding and exploiting her husband.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Lin Halfon, a native of Israel, was arrested at Tampa International Airport earlier this month on charges of money laundering, organized fraud and exploitation of an elderly person.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Investigators in Florida say Halfon <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2019/12/23/attempt-to-cash-1-million-check-at-a-tampa-amscot-leads-to-womans-arrest-authorities-say/">tried to cash a $1 million cashier’s check</a> at a Amscot branch last month. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> However, employees at the financial services company refused to cash the check. After the </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">employees refused to cash the $1 million Wells Fargo cashier’s check on Nov. 7, Halfon offered to pay the company $100,000 to do the transaction, more than twice the company’s standard fee, the warrant affidavit states.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">When that ploy also failed, she returned a few hours later with three checks, each for $333,333.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The financial services company employees again refused to cash the checks.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">This time they made copies of the checks and Halfon’s Israeli passport, which she used as identification along with a U.S. visa. When asked about Rappaport’s whereabouts, Halfon said he was out of the country.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The employee contacted authorities.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Halfon told investigators On Nov. 12, she mailed the checks in a care package to her sister in Israel to hide them after she and Rappaport had a fight.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">She claimed her new husband&#8217;s family had been pressuring him not to give her money and that she would ask her sister to mail back the checks.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The next day, investigators interviewed Rappaport and Titus at his home.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Initially the newly wed businessman said he believed it was a mistake until he asked Halfon to return the check.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Rappaport’s daughter Dayna Titus </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">told the investigators Halfon “berated [her father], on the phone when he asked for the check back.” </span></p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-339943" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Lin-Halfon-and-Richard-Rappaport-1.jpg" alt="Lin Halfon and Richard Rappaport 1.JPG" width="765" height="802" /><strong>Lin Halfon and Richard Rappaport pose for a photo at a benefit for the Florida Holocaust Museum held at the Vinoy Renaissance Hotel in Feb 2019</strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Husband Richard Rappaport who is president of a Tampa-based medical equipment company, initially wanted to give his wife the benefit of the doubt, investigators said.<br />
The investigators told Rappaport that Halfon had broken the $1 million check into three checks. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">However, after two of the checks adding up to $666,666 were cashed a thousand miles away, he admitted that he believed he was a victim of fraud.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">On November 22, a young man with an Orlando address reportedly, cashed one of the $333,333 checks in New Jersey. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Five days later, the same man cashed a second check for the same amount at the same place.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Rapport&#8217;s adult daughter Dayna Titus did not even know her father was married to Halfon when the investigation into the checks started.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“Titus believed that Halfon was ‘conning’ Rappaport due to his age,” wrote Special Agent Victoria Morris of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Halfon&#8217;s attorney Todd Foster, who specializes in defendants accused of white-collar crime said “There’s a valid marriage between this couple and we look forward to bringing forward additional facts to bring clarity to this situation”.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Her bail was set at $1 million.</span></p>
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Newly married woman, 26, is accused of trying to cash $1 million in checks from her 77-year-old husband’s account – Lin Halfon’s proxy already cashed two of three checks, each worth $333,333 – Cops
