Perpetrator of Banff literary fraud back behind bars

January 21, 2006
Source: Calgary Sun
Original story — link verified on January 21, 2006

Lisa Hackney, who has been known by as many as 16 other aliases, including that of European socialite Elisabeth von Hullessem, is now in an Arkansas jail. The Canadian citizen was convicted of bilking writers and literary agents out of $10,000 in registration fees for a fake literary conference based in Banff in the summer of 2003.

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