MISSOURI — A Mount Vernon woman pleads guilty to her role in a wire fraud conspiracy that targeted the Missouri Lottery Commission and an area gas station.
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This morning in federal court, Amy Young, 42, admitted to using stolen and fraudulent credit cards and numbers at a Joplin gas station to purchase lottery tickets.
She said she and her fellow co-conspirators made more than $62,082.50 in July and August of 2022.
Young said they would buy the tickets using the stolen cards, then have someone else go in and collect the winnings from the tickets…