Beauty is said to be skin deep but in the case for next month’s Miss USA Pageant, one contestant has found that identity theft is deeper and not as pretty.
Shaletta Porterfield who was a contender for the Miss Wisconsin USA pageant has resigned from the contest on Friday after being busted for three counts of identity theft for financial gain.
She confessed to forging signatures of business owners on advertising contracts while she was working at a marketing company last year. When the business companies themselves asked the advertising companies to proof some of the ads they had not agreed to buy the scheme unraveled.
The Miss USA Pageant is owned by US presidential candidate Donald Trump and has had it’s share of controversy. The 2010 winner was busted when her hometown radio station revealed she’d had a past as a pole dancer.
In this case of Porterfield, she allegedly did what she did due to pressure on her from her company to meet certain quotas and with any commission based system that doesn’t have the proper oversights, someone will eventually start stealing and that’s what happened here.
