Providence woman charged with attempt to extort $10M changes plea to not guilty

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Providence woman charged with attempt to extort $10M changes plea to not guilty

A woman who admitted to attempting to extort $10 million from her boyfriend by threatening to tell the police that he raped her, yesterday changed her plea.

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