Quote-"I wouldn't feel too angry about her because she just had the balls to do it & it nearly paid off. She wasn't really harming anyone."

I'm not mad either, but I can imagine how the publisher feels. :)

Let's face it, we survive having suspicious minds. Everything is a gimic these days from false pictures on the covers of magazines to advertisements selling youth in a bottle. What she did in reality is no worse than a lot of the other scams that everybody knows is a scam, but have learned to live with. I say fifty lashes with a wet noodle and sell the books as Mili Vanilli keep sakes slash collectors prints(the author that duped the NYT with a bogus pile of half truths) and let the woman go make a family. Hopefully teaching her kids not to tell lies like she did. Maybe.