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Assistant Phila. DA Gets Overall Excellence Award (John Ostapkovich, KYW 1060)

A Philadelphia assistant district attorney is being hailed for her work prosecuting scam artists and identity thieves.

Mary-Ellen Walter got the "Prosecutor of the Year" award from the local chapter of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators for overall excellence -- particularly in gaining convictions in several high profile cases.

One was an identity-theft ring, another a crooked mover, and a third a guy who defrauded people out of their homes.

Among the Judd children she passes for liberal.

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Nefertiti Randall schemed to steal people's personal information and then stole, with accomplices, about $250,000 in her victims' names.

Thanks to Mary-Ellen Walter, she'll pay for her crime with 37 months in prison.

Rickie Williams stole people's houses.

Thanks to Walter, he'll serve 10 to 20 years in jail.

Andrew Bassaner promised to move customers' furniture and instead swindled 200 people out of cash and household possessions.

Thanks to Walter, he'll spend 21 years on probation and serve a two- to four-year work-release sentence.

For her financial fraud-fighting efforts, Walter - a Philadelphia assistant district attorney - was named Prosecutor of the Year by the Delaware Valley chapter of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.

She snagged second place in the association's International Prosecutor of the Year competition.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 5, 2003 8:42 PM