#majorfraudoperation

[onefelldown]

Sometimes the most random things cross my mind... Like this, from 2000, just before I started working for the Knoxville based Miss Junior America pageant. Yes, I was part of the problem for a good 6-9 months...and yes, it is a problem. Until the last month I worked out of the seedy apartment unit in West Knoxville, I called these young girls & their parents & convinced them to send us $250 to register for the pageant and added the company line "anyone can be Miss Jr America, last year it was a girl in a wheelchair" - this I later learned was not true, I quit shortly thereafter. But not before dragging my sweet friend @leemarield to Chicago for literally a day; they didn't even stay overnight in the hotel they held the "pageant" in! I've never actually apologized for my role in all of this, so let me say it now, I deeply regret being so naive at 20 years old. #TBT #TheApologyTour Also, I said many times after learning the truth that I expected Dateline to show up & expose the whole operation. That never happened, but I challenge anyone to find any evidence that this pageant existed, other than this newspaper article from 2000. I spent over an hour online & this was all I could find... #MajorFraudOperation #PoorGirls