CHICAGO (CBS) — There had been new developments Wednesday within the case of accused serial scammer Candace Clark – whose story CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker has been following for greater than two years.
A decide on Wednesday stated, “This has gone on long enough,” after Clark’s new legal professional requested for extra time to fulfill along with his shopper.
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When Tucker first met Clark, she was the star of a personal ceremony the place she was being sworn in as the brand new United Nations attaché. But it was all pretend – the decide and the viewers had been principally actors.
Over the course of many months, we found a number of pretend ceremonies the place Clark pretended to be sworn in as Illinois’ new Director of Special Investigations. She had scammed actors, musicians, caterers, venue house owners out of hundreds of {dollars}.
The decide within the phony ceremonies was not likely a decide – she was impartial movie actress Jamie Newell.
“It was all a fake, a hoax,” Newell instructed Tucker in January.
We had proof that Clark’s deceptions dated again to her highschool days. At Percy Julian High School in Chicago’s Washington Heights neighborhood, classmates thought Clark was Miss Teen Illinois.
The actual winner was Danielle Reese.
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At one level, Clark pretended to be a counselor and was accused of swindling younger moms out of $3,600.
Clark additionally posed as an actual property agent and conned Darlene Simmons out of her whole retirement – $73,000.
“She’s a devil,” Simmons stated final winter.
Our greatest discovery was Clark’s housing rip-off. She cherished renting large, costly, lovely houses – solely she by no means paid for them.
Clark was evicted 23 occasions over 12 years. Altogether, we recognized 86 individuals and firms that misplaced cash to Clark, and after we added up the entire, it got here to a whopping $469,000.
After our collection of studies, police arrested Clark on Jan. 17, 2020. After she made bail, the final time we noticed her she was leaving courtroom together with her legal professional Borjan Kovacevic.
Since then, Clark’s case has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and in addition by her personal actions. A 12 months in the past, Clark fired legal professional Kovacevic, with no clarification. She was then assigned an assistant public defender, who withdrew after legal professional David Drwencke got here on for personal illustration in November.
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Clark is due again in courtroom later this month, when a trial date might lastly be set.
