Downriver photographer pleads guilty in $4.6M child modeling scheme

The Brief

  • Chanise Coyne will plead guilty in a child modeling wire fraud scheme.
  • Coyne, 46, of New Boston, obtained more than $4.6 million from a local family.
  • She faces up to 20 years of imprisonment with her sentencing set for 2 p.m. on Sept. 1.

FOX 2 A New Boston photographer has pleaded guilty in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme involving child modeling events, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan.

The backstory:

Chanise Coyne has pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud and admitted that she obtained over $4.6 million from a local family, exploiting their daughter’s modeling dreams.

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