{"id":56084,"date":"2025-10-24T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/eleanor-holmes-norton-an-88-year-old-dem-congressional-delegate-scammed-by-phony-cleaning-crew-at-dc-home\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:55:48","slug":"eleanor-holmes-norton-an-88-year-old-dem-congressional-delegate-scammed-by-phony-cleaning-crew-at-dc-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/eleanor-holmes-norton-an-88-year-old-dem-congressional-delegate-scammed-by-phony-cleaning-crew-at-dc-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Holmes Norton, an 88-year-old Dem congressional delegate, scammed by phony ‘cleaning crew’ at DC home"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 88-year-old Democratic congressional delegate for Washington, D.C.<\/a>, was scammed out of more than $4,000 Thursday when suspects showed up at her home claiming to be a “cleaning crew,” Fox News Digital has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The suspects accessed Eleanor Holmes Norton’s credit card after they were let inside her D.C. home.<\/p>\n

They charged nearly $4,362 for duct and fireplace cleaning to her credit card while doing no work, according to WRC-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Someone who Norton\u2019s office described as a house manager stopped and reported the alleged fraud after confirming there was no appointment for HVAC services.<\/p>\n

POSTAL FRAUD INVESTIGATOR ALLEGEDLY STOLE MORE THAN $330K FROM ELDERLY SCAM VICTIMS HE WAS MEANT TO PROTECT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

HOW THIEVES USE NEW CREDIT CARD NUMBERS BEFORE YOU RECEIVE THEM\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Her office told the news station, “The congresswoman employs a house manager who oversees all maintenance services, so she initially assumed her staff had arranged the visit and provided her credit card for payment.<\/p>\n

“Upon notifying her house manager, who reviewed Ring doorbell footage and confirmed that no such appointment had been scheduled, the incident was immediately reported to the police<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

U.S. Capitol Police arrived at Norton\u2019s home after the alleged crime<\/a> to make sure Norton was safe, and a police car was parked outside her home out of an abundance of caution because the suspects “were adamant they were coming back,” a source told Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An 88-year-old Democratic congressional delegate for Washington, D.C., was scammed out of more than $4,000 Thursday when suspects showed up at her home claiming to be a “cleaning crew,” Fox News Digital has confirmed. The suspects accessed Eleanor Holmes Norton’s credit card after they were let inside her D.C. home. They charged nearly $4,362 for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}