Tania Head Faked Being a 9/11 Survivor
The former president of the World Trade Center Survivors Network, Tania Head, is one of those con artists who just seems shadier than the rest. It would seem that being a 9/11 survivor would be the primary qualification for employment in such a position, but Head was not one. She simply made it up.
Head asserted that when the jet struck on September 11, she was in the South Tower. No less on the floor it struck. In the chaos, she burned herself and came close to losing her arm. Welles Crowther, a guy who gave his life saving lives during the catastrophe, brought her to safety. Days later, she claimed, she awoke in a hospital with the news that her husband had passed away in the North tower.
The woman's story was untrue, it turned out. The deceased was occasionally her fiance, but he was also her husband. Although Merrill Lynch didn't designate her as an employee, she claimed to work there. Her supposed colleges, Stanford and Harvard, also lacked any records.
She actually went by the name of Alicia Head. She was attending a class in her doctoral program in Barcelona, Spain, on September 11, 2001. Strangely enough, other survivors in the network observed that she did wonderful work, garnering money and exposure for them despite her lies. She gave her own money instead of taking any for herself. Their best estimate is that she had a strange need to be the focus of the story even if she was really sympathetic to what had transpired.
