A mother-son team of grifters tried to cheat the United Nations out of tens of thousands of dollars by claiming he was an ambassador for a non-existent mission in Hawaii, federal authorities charged yesterday.
Sandra Lynn Bennie allegedly helped her son pose as an ambassador to run up an enormous $30,000 tab at a Burbank hotel.
Anton Seutter Von Loetzen pretended to be an American ambassador preparing a United Nations outpost in Hawaii to help underprivileged children, federal prosecutors said.
Charges against the duplicitous duo were unsealed yesterday in Manhattan federal court.
Prosecutors say the couple even forwarded the outrageous bills to U.N. headquarters here in New York, asking them to pay the expenses because they had been cleared through two Supreme Court justices.
The note still managed to misspell one of the judge’s names.
“This went through Chief Judge [sic] Rehnquist and Justice Seuter [sic],” the note read, according to the criminal complaint.
Bennie was arrested in Maryland yesterday morning. The feds are still hunting for her son.