The first known victim of Nelson Counne, charged with $1.8 million in romance scams, tells the Post he was a Purple Heart and 9/11 liar.
Nelson Counne conned Kristie out of $5,000 and a year of her life with his web of lies after they met in 2000.But she managed to get justice when he was jailed for a year – and Kristie built a new life and found a loving marriage.swindling $1.8 million“I think he should be in jail for all of his life,” Kristie, who asked that her full name be withheld, told the Post. “He rapes women of their money, of their dignity.
But that spiel – and nearly every tale to come – was a “total lie,” Kristie said, acknowledging her persuasive friend ended up spending the night. “So, I took the diamond ring to a jeweler up the block from me to see if it was real,” she said. “And it wasn’t.” “There was always an excuse. It’s amazing what he conjured up, like the feds were after him,” Kristie said. “But to me, I was ready in my life to let go, just to abandon my life and he painted this fantasy of a life that we could lead together. I wanted to just explore and go to Europe and have all this money that he told me we were going to have.”
Kristie kept dating him just to gather evidence from his cellphone bills – which Elaine had been paying. “We were detectives and we were finding clues,” Kristie said. “We were determined to put this guy in jail.” In 2018, he called himself “Nelson Roth” while meeting an Upper East Side woman online, using the same ruse of being an art dealer ruse with multiple homes around the world and a luxury apartment on East 63rd Street.The woman unmasked Counne as a con artist with the help of her daughter and a private investigator.
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