[3] Fastow is a native of Houston, Texas, where she was born into a Jewish family.
When she was young her parents divorced and her mother went on to marry to Akiva Nof, and from this marriage was born a half-sister.
[4] In 2003, Fastow was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to commit wire fraud; money laundering conspiracy and four counts of filing false income tax returns.
[5] She pleaded guilty on January 14, 2004, to submitting a fraudulent income tax return that did not include profits her family had received from her husband's off-the-books partnerships.
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