4:00 AM, Jan 9, 2008 - Cook County prosecutors tried to have former University of Notre Dame instructor Lisa Caponigri thrown into prison after she was convicted of bilking her elderly cousin. Instead, Caponigri got four years' probation and was ordered to repay more than $200,000 to her Southwest Side cousin, then 91.

BY FRANK MAIN Crime Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com
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I graduated from Notre Dame the same year as Ms. Caponigri - she was the daughter of a well-regarding philosophy professor. She was always looking to live a higher, faster lifestyle than being in academia, and looked down at most of her fellow classmates. All I can say is that she will reap what she has sown in life.....

Thanks so much for informing the people about Lisa Caponigri
I do own a business and I did ship packages on her behalf to her website's clients www.lisasitaly
For a while I got repaid by charging her credit card but then her card kept been declined.>>
When I told her and after many attempts to get paid I warned her to contact a collection agency and she accused me of threatening her
She always showed to be outraged by my emails
The fact is she never paid us back and I suppose I will have to write off over $ 5,000... So if she is now in prison, I hope she will be staying there since she is a professionist, she tried to get rid of her cousins, then she did not pay a Katrina relief survivor that was taking care of her disabled child, she did not pay her employee..........I hope she will be staying in prison for real!
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Lisa Caponigri is a proven con and pathological liar beyond compare and seems to have the power to keep her image and past under wraps to unsuspecting employees and consumers. She has been arrested three times now, once in California yet somehow, probably due to her former legal background, she manages to continue bilking innocent people while maintaining that all of her charges are innocent mistakes or misunderstandings. She gets away with it due to unfortunate lax white collar crime laws. It’s amazing that this pathetic, tawdry American-Italian villain hasn’t pissed off the wrong person yet & had “Louie & Guido” over to break her kneecaps. Lisa has a sham of a website business, www.lisasitaly.com, that should have been shut down by now – customers order merchandise that isn’t even in stock & never gets shipped, then dispute the charges with their credit card company & get refunded. Thus, she is effectively ripping off the credit card companies & the customers don’t report her, but since all this takes place “online” – a gray business and legal area, she gets away with it. In January 08 she got arrested for a 3^rd time for check kiting - not paying her employees (numerous employees went unpaid) and for being under fraud investigation with Bank of America & Wells Fargo. I pity her poor Mother who bailed her out of the slammer. I’m sure Lisa has her convinced with her “woe is me, I’m just a poor victim of misunderstanding” self-convinced innocence. And what a pathetic mother and role model she is to her three children. Throw in state & federal tax and business licensing violations - Lisa Caponigri has a rap sheet a mile long. When she feels threatened she will throw around legal terms and threats of libel or slander or will sick her half-baked crooked lawyer on you. This dimwit must be getting paid with sexual favors from her (shudder!) as she doesn’t have any money, outside suspected hidden offshore accounts, to pay him with. All of her wrongdoings can be proven and are verifiable, especially if you can gain access to police and court records. Courageous Frank Main of the Chicago Sun-Times has written two brilliant articles detailing her lawbreaking ways which provide the starting point for uncovering undeniable evidence. She will get what is coming to her either by the law of the universe, karma, or Louie & Guido!

Wow, what can one person do to get in so much trouble!

Eric