Judge Buchwald sided with the victim’s family, saying that regardless of her past good deeds, on January 31, Shannade “chose to steal the victim’s credit card information without calling 911.” The deceased man’s sister was present and said that after “my brother died, Ms. Clermont went shopping.” According to court documents, in the week’s following the victim’s death, Shannade had spent up to $20,000 on luxury clothes, rent, and plane tickets with his credit card info and wire transfers from his bank account to hers, which were conducted via fake emails accounts created under his name. Buchwald condemned this series of choices as a “failure of character.”

Shannade admitted to committing the crime:

 “At least in part due to the stress of keeping up her public image”.

When faking it for the gram gets you in a slam–the slammer that is.