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Vanity plate leads to over $100,000 in parking tickets for 70-year-old woman in NY
Leila Ahmed
Leila Ahmed
Reporter · Syracuse, NY
A graduate of the University at Buffalo, Leila has spent five years in journalism, previously working at a community-focused news outlet in Rochester, NY. She specializes in uncovering the diverse voices and cultural richness of Syracuse’s neighborhoods, bringing their stories to light.
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A simple vanity plate led to more than $100,000 worth of parking tickets, according to a new report.Carole Blank Brown, a 70-year-old woman in New York City, told The New York Times that she had to dispute more than 400 outstanding tickets and penalties totaling more than $40,000 in fines. She first started receiving notices in the spring about unpaid parking tickets after she updated her car’s registration to an address on NYC’s Upper East Side.
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