Scammer Jailed for Stealing Close to $400K From Cousin

Published on March 7, 2024

A Victorian woman who scammed her own cousin of close to $400,000 (US$263,164) for a fake house and land package has been jailed for more than five years. Angela Liberatore, 50, convinced her cousin Jessica Lacivita in March 2014 that she was selling residential investment properties on behalf of developers and receiving commissions. She recommended Ms. Lacivita and her husband Peter Koukas purchase a development in Queensland and purportedly loaned them $188,000 (US$123,687) required to buy the land. The couple paid her $1,000 and obtained finance from NAB to begin repaying the remainder of the debt, issuing Liberatore a $127,500 cheque from the bank. Liberatore told them the development should be finished in December 2016 and showed them fake emails as proof....

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