Saturday, August 11, 2007
Michael George faces more charges
The prosecutor in Michigan is charging Pittsburgh Comicon organizer and comic book retailer Michael George with new charges.
George, 47 — who is accused in the slaying of his 32-year-old wife, Barbara, in his Clinton Township store — faces two new charges: insurance fraud and obtaining money under false pretenses.
“The proofs will show that nothing was taken,” said Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Steve Kaplan.
He acknowledged that the murder charge is more pressing, but he said that George received $13,000 in insurance money.
George reported that two boxes of valuable comics were stolen from a back storage room during his wife’s murder. The police now contend that no comics were missing and that George simply made the whole thing up to receive insurance money and to make the police believe that the his wife’s murder was the result of a robbery gone bad.
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