A 73-year-old Michigan woman is on the run after allegedly posing as a heiress and scamming nearly $30 million from banks and other financial institutions in a yearlong scheme, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a most wanted bulletin.

Mary Carole McDonnell is wanted for her alleged involvement in a "fraud scheme" in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California, the bulletin states . The FBI said she posed as an heir to the McDonnell Aircraft family and falsely claimed to have access to an $80 million secret trust. The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation no longer exists.

The James S. McDonnell Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

The scheme began around July 2017 and continued until May 2018, the FBI said. Around the time of the ruse, McDon

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