Thursday, October 10, 2013
NY man sentenced in Girl Scouts scam
Dan Sandler, dressed as the Muppet character Elmo, is handcuffed and detained by police after using anti-Semitic language in Times Square, New York, on Sept. 18, 2012.
Arrested last year for disorderly conduct while wearing an Elmo costume in New York, Dan Sandler got one year in prison for trying to extort $2M from the group.
NEW YORK — A bogus costumed Elmo, who collected tips for cuddling children in family photos in New York's Times Square, was sent to jail for a year on Wednesday for trying to extort $2 million from the Girl Scouts of the USA.
Dan Sandler, 49, a one-time temporary worker for the Girl Scouts, was sentenced after pleading guilty to charges local media said stemmed from his threats to go public with false information that the organization arranged sex between men and young girls at a scout camp.
His one-year term for attempted grand larceny and stalking follows Sandler's unrelated 2012 arrest for an anti-Semitic tirade also while dressed as Elmo, and the arrest in April 2013 of a fake Cookie Monster, who shoved a 2-year-old child whose mother failed to tip him after taking a photo.
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