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Royal Gazette Staff
Created: Dec 20, 2006 10:00 AM
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Thompkins met Isaac when he flew her to Bermuda to pose for his 2003 swimwear calendar Bermuda on the Rocks. The model pictured is not Thompkins, who never made it into the finished calendar. She told the court during her trial, the designer told me I was too heavy for the costume.

1998 - 2005 Teketa Thompkins works in her home state of Georgia, US, as an adult entertainer.2000 — Harrison Isaac Jr. begins work in the Accountant General's Department in Bermuda, claiming to be a Certified Public Accountant. May 2003 — Isaac begins looting an account that the Government holds with the Bank of New York, Wall Street, Manhattan>July 26 2003 — Thompkins travels to Bermuda to model for Isaac's swimsuit calendar, and meets him for the first time. August 7 2003 — Isaac sends Thompkins, who has by now become his girlfriend, $380,000 in the first of five illegal wires from the Bank of New York accountB>January 2004 — Isaac proposes to Thompkins and presents her with a diamond ring during a stay at the Elbow Beach resort.February 6 2004 — Thompkins receives the last wire of Government cash. The total she has been sent by Isaac is now $1.4 milliMarch 2004 — Thompkins is caught bringing $30,000 from Georgia into Bermuda when a customs officer stops her at Bermuda International Airport. A search reveals $26,000 of the cash hidden in her underwear. She says it was destined for Isaac.

She is arrested and detained, but returns to the US without charge after a night in custody.April 2004 — Isaac is arrested at the airport as he attempts to leave Bermuda. Police raid his Hamilton Parish home where they find evidence of the fraud. He is later charged and an extradition to the US gran.August 2004 — An FBI officer questions Thompkins at her home in Georgia. She tells him she is three months pregnant.January 2005 — Isaac is extradited to thS.February 2005 — Thompkins gives birth to a son, the result of a new relationship.March 8 2005 — After further questioning by the FBI, Thompkins is arrested in Geia.July 2006 — Isaac pleads guilty to fraud charges at the US District Court, Southern District of New York. August 2006 — Isaac is sentenced to four years and seven months in custody in tUS.

December 6 2006 — The jury starts hearing evidence in the Thompkins trial. Isaac takes the stand in her defence. He also admits that he is not a Certified Public Accountant.

December 18 — Thompkins is found guilty, and told she will be sentenced next May.

Prosecutors showed the jury numerous documents like this one, demonstrating how Thompkins would pay the laundered stolen money back to Isaac.