Should criminal charges be brought up against Tia Norfleet?

Question

She was the supposed 1st licensed African-American female NASCAR driver until the New York Times uncovered the fact that she lied to everyone. She did have a NASCAR permit, but it wasn't for the Nationwide series. It was for the ARCA level/K&N Pro Series level and those types of permits are the ones just about everyone can buy if you cough up $200 for it. Of the 20,000 people that have these, how does she know if she was the first black female to get one in the 1st place? Before the scandal broke, she would post when she would be in the Nationwide series all last year and the beginning of this year, but I never once seen her at any Nationwide series races. She would also never tell anyone how she done in the race. The crazy part is, I had access to the entry list to all the races last year and this year before the NYT ran the story and never once seen her name on them.

She has her own website where she was taking financial donations so she can race every week. She done did lied to the media that she was a NASCAR driver and those who were not knowledgeable of auto racing began forking over money to her not realizing that they were being duped. She would tell her fans when she would be at a Nationwide race and the money began pouring in. What they didn't know is that she wasn't even at that particular race that day. The dumb saps didn't bother to look at the Entry List to see who was racing so they were dumb enough to give. Finally word got out that she was a liar and only raced 1 race, but not Nationwide, and she only completed one lap and was forced to quit the race. On top of that, her entire racing record was a lie too. They also found out that she's had prior arrests too. She conned a lot of people out of money for lying and I was wondering why nobody is going after her to get their money back. Thank God I wasn't one of the ones that donated to her cause because I smelled something shady from the word get-go, but she pretty much committed fraud by lying to people about her accomplishments and what she was going after only to find out that it was a lie. I'm surprised the police or FBI aren't investigating this lady because she deceitfully took handouts from people, prayed on their lack of knowledge of the sport and their stupidity, took their money and ran. What is taking the police so long to look at her.

Answer 1

Spamming/scamming for money. The problem is, where is she located, who's jurisdiction? I'm sure it's illegal, and agree with you, but just what law did she break? I'm not a lawyer. The FBI has bigger fish to fry. that she committed some sort of fraud, is obvious, tho fraud is hard to prove.



Again, I agree with you, the question is how to handle it, and who has jurisdiction?



I hope the word gets spread quick, so there aren't any more victims.

I never heard of her before?



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Arca has nothing to do with na$car, look it up.



"The ARCA Racing Series powered by Menards is an American stock car series, the premier division of the ARCA. It is considered a minor, but professional, league of stock car racing, perhaps two steps down from the top-level NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and one step down from that series' minor league, the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Though some events occur the same weekend as NASCAR events, the Series is in no way affiliated with NASCAR."

Answer 2

According to the latest breaking news she ran one race and parked the car. Her whole racing career including lying about her age has been manufactured by her for alleged profit over the internet. We will have to wait to see how this all pans out. She isn't the first "sports star" to do this and won't be the last. Recently we saw a reality TV star lie about his injuries in the military, when in fact he wasn't even in the military. So yea this happens and the internet and Media eat this stuff up making it possible for these fakes to make a quick buck. It is always short lived but by that time it is to late for the poor people who bought into the scam and lost money because of it.

Answer 3

Hmm. I guess her defense could be that many people tend to use the moniker NASCAR as a generic term for stock-car racing (probably many NYT readers) and hey....she has been in a stock-car race.



All race drivers are self-promoting or else they wouldn't have a ride. In this case it may be that she is a con-artist posing as a typical self-promoting driver. In any case, the police can do nothing unless someone files a complaint...and who is going to admit they are so gullible? Aside from embarrassment inhibiting complainants, the way these people often work is the people who they beat out of 50 or 100 bucks, they just move on. The people she took for bigger money, if they threaten to go to police....she's got money to pay them back from the 50/100 buck people who already wrote it off.

Answer 4

If she is guilty of mail fraud, of course she should.

She is clearly trying to deceive people, by not including

the "real" facts. That she really is not a NASCAR driver.

Having a NASCAR license doesn't make you a driver.

Driving and racing, makes you a driver.

Answer 5

Anyone who would give away their money because she claimed to be "the 1st licensed African-American female NASCAR driver" is an idiot.

Answer 6

Favre, your ignorance is palpable.



My stance on this is, so what if she's conned a few people. People were stupid enough to give her money. That's like some one crossing a busy highway blindfolded, gets hit by a car and then trying to blame the driver who hit him. None the less she is no good for the sport. And should be banned from the sport because, young kids look up to race car drivers as role models. We don't need a lying scam artist who isn't even a real race car driver to be looked at as a role model for these young kids aspiring to be a real racer some day.

Answer 7

Yes, it's fraud.

Answer 8

She has to be a race car driver, she has a helmet.

Answer 9

let her race..this is gibberish.