Scots woman jailed for falsely offering film-makers access to Clinton campaign

A woman has been jailed after duping film-makers into believing she could get them behind-the-scenes access to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.ann Leuser fraudulently claimed to have a close connection with the former US secretary of state and tried to enter into a contract for a fly-on-the-wall documentary.

The 56-year-old of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, even paid an actress £5,000 to impersonate Mrs Clinton’s director of communications Jennifer Palmieri over the phone.

During a period of ten months, she sent fraudulent e-mails to a producer claiming to be from members of the Clinton campaign team.

The scam saw her get several all-expenses paid trips to London as well as being flown to New York under the premise of getting an access letter signed.

It had been agreed that if Leuser presented an access letter from the presidential candidate to the Uk-based production team she would be paid £30,000 immediately.

She would also receive three further payments of £30,000 during the filming process. Democrat Mrs Clinton lost out in the 2016 US presidential race to Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Leuser was sentenced to 44 months at Inner London Crown Court yesterday for fraud by false representation.