A tearful Tara Lynn Lee was handcuffed in federal court Thursday and taken away to jail after a judge revoked her bond in an alleged adoption scheme case for violating conditions of her bond
Lee had been free on a $10,000 unsecured bond on a wire fraud charge. One of her bond conditions banned her from using electronic devices, but she was secretly videotaped by a television news station using what appears to be a cellphone.
“She used — and I can’t say this strongly enough — extremely poor judgement,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Mona Majzoub said during Thursday’s hearing.
Lee, 37, of New Haven is accused of defrauding dozens of victims across the United States out of $200,000 through an adoption scheme.
