Woman arrested for impersonating FBI agent

Accused of impersonating a G-Man, a Seal Beach woman met real FBI agents Thursday when they arrested her at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, authorities said.

Karen Hanover, 44, was arrested without incident two days after federal prosecutors charged her in a Santa Ana federal court with using special technology to mask her phone number and disguise her voice so she could scare people into thinking she was a federal agent.

The criminal complaint accuses Hanover of targeting people at real estate education seminars to pay her a $30,000 “fee” to help them find commercial properties to buy.

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