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Wife of Florida businessman who faked his death pleads guilty to conspiracy
Published December 02, 2016
DENPASAR, BALI, INDONESIA - JANUARY 14: An officer opens the handcuffs of Heather Mack of the US as she arrive in a cell after her hearing trial on January 14, 2015 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer are accused of murdering Mack's mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in the back of a taxi outside a luxury Bali hotel in August 2014. (Photo by Agung Parameswara/Getty Images) (2015 Getty Images)
The wife of a Florida businessman who authorities say faked his own death to defraud insurance companies has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.
The Florida Times-Union reports that 58-year-old Daphne Simpson entered the plea at an arraignment hearing Wednesday. She faces up to five years in prison and a $1.7 million fine.
Last month, federal prosecutors accused Simpson of working with husband Jose Lantigua to make the story of his 2013 death believable and to file life insurance claims. She was released from jail after state charges were dropped and told to return to court Wednesday to face the new federal charge.
Lantigua was falsely reported dead in Venezuela and arrested in 2015 after getting caught in North Carolina applying for a passport in another man's name.
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