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Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
A single document led to a £1m scam, 20 years of lies and eventually brought about a woman's downfall
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAt a quick glance, the everyday reader would think this is a normal degree certificate. Yet this is the document that a bogus psychiatrist created to forge her 20-year career.
Zholia Alemi falsified the certificate, along with a letter of verification riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, before submitting it to the General Medical Council (GMC) to register as a qualified doctor.
She was somehow accepted and over the last 20 years worked in various positions all over the country, including Manchester. Alemi is estimated to have fraudulently obtained over £1 million through the NHS. READ MORE: Woman who posed as doctor for over twenty YEARS jailed as judge blasts 'abject failure of scrutiny' Following a four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court, Alemi was found guilty of 20 offences including two offences of forgery; two offences of using a false instrument; three offences of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception; and 13 offences of fraud by false representation.
On Tuesday (February 28) she was jailed for seven years as a judge blasted the GMC for an ‘abject failure of scrutiny’. In the document, which has been shared with the Manchester Evening News, it shows a photocopy of the fake certificate.
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