Woman steals everything from in-laws, gambles away $14 million
It’s always a gamble when you let others handle your finances. The risk is exacerbated when you marry someone with a gambling addiction and she knows your senile parents have $500,000 sitting in the bank.
Jennifer Dennison won $13 million and lost $14 million, but that's not what makes her a loser.
According to an article by a St. Petersburg Times reporter, a Florida woman stole the half-million from her in-laws, who first realized something was wrong when a check to their dentist bounced.
Jennifer Dennison, 42, of Bushnell, Fla., is charged with wiping out the elderly couple’s savings and checking accounts, as well as cashing in and spending their CDs, annuities, life insurance and retirement funds.
According to investigators, Dennison’s husband, Scott, let his wife handle his parents’ finances.
Jennifer was quite the gambler — she won $13 million over a two-year period at a Tampa casino. Unlike Kenny Rogers, she didn’t know when to fold ‘em — she spent $14 million during the same time period.
The end result is that the bankrupted couple doesn’t have enough to pay Jennifer’s $64,000 bail.
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84 comments Add your comment
Laschea
April 6th, 2011
7:17 pm
Why would they want to bail her out anyway???
Craig
April 6th, 2011
7:19 pm
Looser. Keep her in jail. Worthless person!
nhdg
April 6th, 2011
7:50 pm
it must be that tiger blood
Just Asking
April 6th, 2011
7:55 pm
What a looser? Is that someone that can’t spell loser?
KJ
April 6th, 2011
8:04 pm
Pretty dumb title. She didn’t “gamble away $14 million”, her net losses were $1 million.
B Real
April 6th, 2011
8:42 pm
She’s SCUM!
tbmuch
April 6th, 2011
8:44 pm
Amanda, if this idiot is part of your family, and if things happened as reported in this piece, then, I’ll say it again, she’s an idiot to gamble away that amount of money and more especially money that was not hers. She should have sought professional help for her addiction. I call it the way I see them.
C.M. Thornton, III
April 6th, 2011
9:00 pm
Newsflash, Amanda….she’s a piece of garbage.
Brenda
April 6th, 2011
9:08 pm
I feel awful for the couple who trusted their daughter in law to help w/their money/finances! The same thing is happening to my mom as I type this (her own son and skanky daughter in law) but because I am NOT power of attorney, there is nothing I can do. I definitely would not bail her out of jail…NO WAY…NO HOW
KBofATL
April 6th, 2011
9:09 pm
Oh, Amanda. Stop. Just stop. You may want to believe she has a family, but she does not. Her loved ones are the craps table, the one armed bandit, and the roulette table. Anyone who steals from their in-laws and gambles it away is in too deep for you to defend. She needs serious help.