Social Security and Disability Law

Cleveland Heights Man Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Pay $177k in Restitution for Credit Card Fraud Scheme

September 16, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio: CLEVELAND – Carlos Dashawn Brown, 28, of Bowling Green and Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was sentenced on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, to 38 months in prison and ordered to pay $177,716.07 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. after Brown pleaded guilty to the unauthorized…

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Citizen of Jamaica Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Medicaid

September 16, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARVEL JOHNSON, 50, a citizen of Jamaica residing in Derby, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised…

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Dayton Woman Charged with Federal Crimes Related to Stealing Identities of Local Victims

September 14, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Ohio: DAYTON, Ohio – A Dayton woman was arrested by federal agents this afternoon on charges alleging she has stolen the identities of several young women in the Dayton area and used those identities to commit various types of fraud. Tiffany Lewis, 29, appeared in U.S. District…

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Berwick Woman Pleads Guilty to Decade-Long Social Security Fraud and Housing Voucher Subsidy Fraud

September 13, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maine: PORTLAND, Maine: A Berwick woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to Social Security fraud and theft of public money, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced. According to court records, from about March 2009 to February 2020, Andreanna Politano, 59, concealed the presence of…

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South Carolina Woman Sentenced in Social Security Fraud Scheme

September 12, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina: Columbia, South Carolina – Crystal Deveaux, 61, of Eastover, was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to theft of Government funds totaling of over $258,000.00. Evidence presented to the Court showed Deveaux unlawfully obtained Social Security Retirement Insurance Benefits (RIB)…

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Man Sentenced for Misuse of Social Security Number

September 12, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Iowa: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA – Eric Jimenez Del Carmen, age 39, a Mexican citizen who resided in Denison, was sentenced on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, to 21 months in prison following his plea to a charge of misuse of social security number. In November 2019, Del Carmen…

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Woman Sentenced for Stealing over $100,000 from Social Security

September 12, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Utah: SALT LAKE CITY – Melody Jean Styszko, 54, now of Eldridge, Missouri, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Utah to 60 months of probation for continuing to accept and spend $104,314 dollars in Social Security Retirement Insurance payments from the United States Social Security Administration that…

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Marmaduke Woman Sentenced to a Year of Home Confinement for False Social Security Statements

August 26, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Arkansas: LITTLE ROCK—A Marmaduke woman who fraudulently obtained more than $96,000 in Social Security Administration funds was sentenced yesterday afternoon for making false statements to the United States government. United States District Court Judge Lee Rudofsky sentenced Tammy Jean Hogan, 58, to five years of probation with…

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Sioux City Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Stealing from the Government

August 23, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Iowa: A Sioux City woman who defrauded the United States Government was sentenced August 19, 2022, to 4 months in federal prison. Margaret Ortega, age 45, from Sioux City, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 14, 2022, guilty plea to theft of government funds. In…

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Batavia Woman And Buffalo Woman Both Going To Prison In Separate COVID Fraud Cases

August 22, 2022

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of New York: ROCHESTER/BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Danielle Tooley, 37, of Batavia, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to serve six months in prison and pay approximately $18,000 in restitution by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Assistant U.S.…

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