A woman who lived in pricey Silicon Valley properties rent-free for years by repeatedly scamming landlords and refusing to pay rent was sentenced to 28 months in jail, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said 62-year-old Menlo Park resident Rebecca Violette, aka Rebekah Violette, posed as an affluent investor while filling out rental applications, lying about her income and her prior history of evictions. Violette wrote bad checks to cover the first and last month's rent payments.
She pleaded to three counts of grand theft, three counts of passing bad checks, and one count of attempted theft, the latter count coming after a prospective landlord Googled her name and learned of her previous scams before turning over the property, according to the DA's office.'Renters and landlords should all be cautious. Anyone could fall victim to a well-honed scheme,' District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a prepared statement.
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