Attorney general: ‘Mafia’ threat cost woman life savings
LANCASTER, Pa. — Authorities says a Pennsylvania woman has been scammed out of her $159,000 life savings by a man who told her she’d face Mafia retaliation if she didn’t give him money. Attorney General Josh Shapiro says that man, 45-year-old Yancey Taylor, gambled away the money at casinos. Taylor is from Donora, a Pittsburgh