New York charges 23 with Sept 11 fraud
Suspected September 11 fraudsters accused of inventing missing relatives to collect charity cash following the World Trade Centre terror attacks were revealed today.
Father-of-12 Cyril Kendall is accused of picking up $190,000 (€216,200) by claiming a fictitious 13th child died in the atrocity while Ricardo Frutos, 48, from Utah, is alleged to have invented a missing brother, niece and nephew and even printed memorials for them in his local paper.