Miss Wisconsin Shaletta Porterfield dropped out of the Miss USA pageant after embarrassing identity theft charge.
A top contender for next month's Miss USA title has dropped out of the pageant after being charged with identity theft.Jacked from NY Daily News
Shaletta Porterfield, who was set to appear as Miss Wisconsin USA, resigned from the beauty contest on Friday after being charged with three counts of stealing someone's identity for financial gain.
The Madison beauty told investigators she had forged signatures of business owners on advertising contracts while working for a marketing company last year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
But business owners got wind of the scheme when the marketing company asked them to proof some ads they hadn't agreed to buy.
Robert Nagel, Porterfield's lawyer, said the beauty queen hatched the bogus plot because she was under a lot of pressure from the company to hit her commission goals.
"It's unfortunate, but she has a lot going for her, and she's ready to move on," Nagel told the paper.
Nagel said Porterfield will probably resolve the charges with an agreement that would allow her to pay fines or fulfill other requirements in order to avoid prosecution.
First runner-up Jordan Morkin, of Green Bay, will represent Wisconsin at the Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas in June.
Porterfield's troubles are only the most recent black spot for the annual pageant, which is owned by Donald Trump.
The 2010 winner, Rima Fakih, embarrassed pageant officials after a local radio station in her hometown in Michigan reveled her pole-dancing past.
Fakih, the first-ever Arab-American Miss USA, had won the radio station's "Stripper 101" contest by sexing it up on a stripper pole at a Detroit gentleman's club in 2007.
13 comments:
She deserves everything she gets. They should give the victim a right to beat her a$$ without getting an assault charge.
when you tell a person all they have to do is be beautiful somehow the other social skills start to fall off - starting with morals....
I hope she used some of that dough to get better hair cause dayumn.....
She was rewarded with winning the Ms. Wisconsin title; not Ms. Georgia, not Ms. D.C., Ms. Wisconsin. That is a very high achievement. Now she is being accused of committting a white collar crime. They only give us so many chances and this Ms. Porterfield chick ruined her miss USA chances and possibly her life. You know anytime one of us screws up, it looks bad on all of us.
this cannot be more embarrassing to her than that hairline
She is straight trash. 26 years old? That means she is out of school and a little bit more sophisticated than some stupid college co-ed.
Throw the book at her.
NEXT.
Damn...I ain't taking up for her, but everyone makes poor decisions at one time or another in life...they give them white broads a whole bunch of chances...hell, Paris the hoe was caught with the coke and they still didn't put her in jail, lindsey hohan stole that necklace and everybody knows it and on top of that she has been caught countless times drinking and druggin, britney spears, same thing, so STFU, until everyone is judged the same, the sista should receive another chance!!
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totally agree.
Some black people love to make negative comments about other blacks, especially when they involve physical characteristics. SMH...
Well 11: 35 and 9:21:
Maybe I'm old school, but black folk had they shit together because WE KNEW WE AIN'T NO BRITNEY, PARIS OR LINDSAY. Okay?
Little colored girls today, get a weave and some light contacts and they think just cuz they can swing some fake hair and shit that they white.
Newsflash: THE COLOR GAME IS ALWAYS ON. Don't be fooled by no post-racial Obama is in office shit. We can't get away with the shit white folks do, so, knowing that, be on your A Game always and don't cut white folks a break, because you ain't no damn Britney, Lindsay or Paris.
They got niggaz in wisconsin ? But naw, I'm not surprised by anything these beauty pageant chicks be involved in because most of them are beautiful fools with no skills anyways.I'm mean this chick wasn't the first and she probably won't be the last. We all gots to eat, bottom line.
@ 12:05 Am : (nods heads up and down emphatically in agreement).
Thievin bitch. I have no sympathy for identity being a victum of the crime myself.. It changes your life forever..
Yeah, throw the book at her ass sheeiitt
identity (theft)
I see nothing wrong with hairline. I bet you are perfect in every way. You will be the next Ms. USA.
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