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Sachi, we often cover stories where these scammers have a big TV presence.

Do you ever wonder how they're able to keep up being on

reality TV and scamming at the same time? Because I do. Yeah, who has the time? But also,

they are public figures. Like, aren't they worried about somebody looking into them? Everything

they do can be considered evidence. Yes, it's all public record. While today, we're covering a house

husband, that's the husband of a real housewife, who had so many chances to stop scamming,

but kept going for years, even as a camera's continued rolling. It's the fall of 2013, and special agent Alexandra Herrera is standing outside an interrogation room in Atlanta.

He works for the Secret Service in the Counterfeit Division, and he's about to come face to face with the woman he's been desperately trying to track down.

In early 2012, a fraud investigator at

J.P. Morgan Chase flagged a mysterious woman for possible bank fraud. They had surveillance footage

of this woman opening and accessing multiple accounts in Atlanta and Orlando, all while using

stolen identities and fake IDs. They were able to identify her as a middle-aged black woman,

but they didn't know her real name,

so they brought in Alexandra to help.

Alexandra went to one of the addresses the woman used on the fraudulent accounts.

But it wasn't actually a house.

It was a UPS store. So Alexandra and another agent staked it out.

When the suspect came to pick up a package, they followed her to a grocery store where she bought

food with an EBT card. Alexandra was able to find out the name on that card, Gala St. Julian.

Alexandra kept digging and discovered that Gayla has been involved in a bunch of complicated fraud schemes over the years, and she's actually

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