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Busted for Trading Places in Court

Posted on 08 October 2008

In Italy, a part-time judge and lawyer pulled the old switcheroo with her twin in court and got busted for it. Reported in Italy’s leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera, the two 54-year-old twins have been charged with fraud and will go on trial in January. It began when one sister who had two simultaneous engagements did not want to lose out on legal fees and sent her sister in her place.

The problem was that her sister is not a lawyer and therefore, it wasn’t legal for her to charge the clients, which she did anyway. Oops! After the clients caught on to the “sister-swap,” they both sued for damages.

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