So much for the rich getting all the breaks in life.
Pepsi Bottling Group executive Gary Wandschneider was fired last Thursday, another chapter in this tragic story.
Seems like Gary was using Craigslist, a popular classified-type website, to search for young women to have an affair with. Problem is, while he was trolling internet personal ads for a woman to have an affair with, 22-year-old Jessica Wolcott was searching classified ads looking for a rich executive to grab some money from.
Talk about a match made in cyber-heaven.
Gary Wandschneider had been with the Pepsi Bottling Group for over 24 years, working his way up from production manager. By all accounts, the 54-year-old multimillionaire husband and father of three was a “good man”. Even good people make mistakes right?
Jessica Wolcott has been around it seems, having made waves not only on craigslist but also with the fine people over at Prosper.com, an online marketplace for people-to-people lending. Jessica and her mother had created identities there, complete with some juicy photos.
Seems Jessica, who claims to be a part-time model for Pantene Pro-V, had some business ideas that she wanted some money for. On one hand, she was smart enough to go to the people over at prosper.com for help. The stupidity begins when she decides to create the cheater_eater@hotmail.com account name and begins her hunt.
Gary Wandschneider got all caught up in the “seductive” brunette’s game and after the exchange of a few emails and photos, Gary and Jessica met up in a bar in NY.
Once there, she began shaking him down for $125,000 by threatening to tell his wife, children and bosses he was trolling the Internet for women. “I’m sure this will be an unpleasant surprise. I’m sure when your wife finds out that you’ve been looking for a fill-in for her … it will be unpleasant for her, too,” Jessica told Gary, who must have realized in that exact instant, that his life would never be the same.
Gary made his first smart move in this saga, he called the FBI who began tracing and tracking down Jessica. The FBI then gave Gary the $125,000 to give to her, then set up a sting operation to arrest her. Jessica Wolcott plead guilty and is now out on bail awaiting sentencing.
The moral of this story? Don’t cheat on your wife or else it may cost you dearly. Gary Wandschneider has lost his job, his reputation and might even lose his family after all this. Why? He needed something he wasn’t getting at home. Needed it so bad he wanted to risk it all for the sake of getting it.
Perhaps he should have talked to his wife about his needs? Perhaps she could have met them so that Gary wouldn’t have had to search elsewhere for whatever was missing?
It’s all about communication people. Communication.
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