Man gets 5 years for blackmailing woman out of $18,000
(World News USA)

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - A man who swindled $18,000 out of a woman by making her so scared of a character he invented that she didn`t want to talk about it in a room with windows has been ordered to serve five years in prison. Mike Phillips pleaded guilty to blackmail Tuesday in Orangeburg County. Phillips started blackmailing the woman after convincing her that...