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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
90 days may not seem like a terribly long time, but for Brooke Reinhardt, it was the exact amount of time when her beautiful life, her marriage, new house, and plans to start a family all came to a complete stop.
You may know Anna Chlumsky from the popular HBO comedy Veep.
She reads us Brooke Reinhart's essay sharing the shame after my arrest.
We had been married for just over a year when the FBI showed up at our house at 06:00 a.m.
and arrested me.
They arrested my husband, too, although at the time that seemed beside the point, a stickler for rules who had never even gotten a speeding ticket.
I was handcuffed in my mismatched pajamas and hauled away.
My teeth weren't even brushed.
The charges against me, against us both, were wire fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
In a state of shock, I began babbling to the FBI agents that I would never open mail that wasn't addressed to me.
Never, ever.
If only it were that simple.
When the indictment was unsealed, I learned that my dear husband had, in the simplest terms, used my identity to embezzle tens of thousands of dollars from his workplace, among other crimes.
His using my identity made it look as if I was involved.
I wasn't.