Found out that influencer who faked a kidnapping had a prior fraud conviction in 2019

I was digging through court records after the whole Amber-Leigh fake kidnapping story blew up last week and found out she already had a misdemeanor fraud conviction from three years ago in Phoenix. Nobody in the coverage mentioned it - they all just ran with the "mental health crisis" angle she pushed in her comeback video. How do these creators keep dodging their actual paper trails when a five minute search turns up this stuff?

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brown.gavin2h ago

Hold up. It was actually a felony fraud charge, not misdemeanor. Saw the court docs myself. Still crazy how that gets buried though.

terry_jones3h ago

Three years and nobody checked her name before giving her a platform.

nancybailey2h ago

Did they really not check anything? Feels like the whole system just rubber stamps anyone with a fancy title.