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Disgraced nurse, 35, who faked cancer and muscular dystrophy so she could rip off donors and go on trips for disabled people pleads guilty to fraud

Sarah Delashmit, 35, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges on Tuesday. She was accused of pretending to have breast cancer and muscular dystrophy to get money and be sent on free trips designed for disabled people in an elaborate years-long scam An Illinois woman who pretended to have breast cancer and muscular dystrophy to get money and be sent on free trips designed for disabled people has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges.  Sarah Delashmit, a 35-year-old former nurse from Highland, entered her plea on four felony counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud on Tuesday in US District Court of Southern Illinois.     Delashmit was indicted in March of this year after authorities exposed her elaborate years-long scheme to defraud two non-profit organizations by feigning serious health issues. Beginning in 2015, Delashmit claimed she had been diagnosed muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy so she could attend a charity camp for disabled people in Texas called Camp Su

Joe Biden DENIES meeting his son's Ukrainian business partner despite 'thank you for opportunity to meet your father' email found on laptop - as Giuliani claims he has 40,000 emails and MORE 'compromising' Hunter 'sex and drugs' photos

Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Wednesday dismissed an explosive story about Hunter Biden after emails purported to come from Hunter's laptop appeared to show Hunter making an introduction between his powerful father and a Ukrainian energy firm. A trove of emails obtained from Hunter's laptop and revealed by Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani showed Hunter making an effort to introduce  his father to an adviser at his Ukrainian gas firm before the then-vice president lobbied for the firing of a prosecutor who had investigated the company.  Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for 'an opportunity to meet your father' in an email sent in 2015, according to the stash of data given to the New York Post by Giuliani.  Hours after the story landed, the Biden camp blasted the report, and said a records search indicated no such meeting occurred.  Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said the  paper ' never asked the Biden campaign about the critical

Amy Coney Barrett will return to Capitol Hill today for her senators' final questions after a grueling second day of testimony

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returns to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings as senators dig deeper into the conservative judge's outlook on abortion, health care and a potentially disputed presidential election - the Democrats running out of time to stop Republicans pushing her quick confirmation. Today's session is set to be Barrett's last before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She has been batting away questions in long and lively exchanges, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but decide cases 'as they come.' Her nomination by President Donald Trump to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has ground other legislative business to a halt as Republicans excited by the prospect of locking in a 6-3 conservative court majority race to confirm her over Democratic objections before Election Day. 'We're going to fill this vacancy,' Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the committee chairman, said late Tuesday a