A Bangor-born woman who allegedly scammed people in multiple states and countries has been found guilty in Northern Ireland of fraud, The Times reported.
Marianne Smyth, 56, was convicted of stealing £100,000, or roughly $134,000, before fleeing to the U.S. where she reinvented herself as an Irish heiress on the run from the Irish Republican Army.
While in the U.S. she continued to swindle people and was convicted of grand theft in California in 2016 and again in 2019 for defrauding Johnathan Walton, a reality television producer in Los Angeles, who later made a podcast about Smyth titled “Queen of the Con.”
Smyth was released from jail in December 2020, and in early 2021 she returned to Maine.
She was arrested in 2024 on an extradition warrant from the U.K. while living in Bingham.
The most recent ruling from Northern Ireland is based on allegations of fraud from before she came to the U.S. and involved Smyth allegedly stealing from clients as an independent mortgage advisor in Northern Ireland between 2008 and 2010.
Smyth did not give evidence in her own defense and after a four-day trial and 20 minutes of jury deliberation was convicted of three counts of theft and three counts of fraud by abuse of position, according to the Times.
