Jul 7, 2007

Twenty-One Months For Social Security Fraud

From the Baltimore Sun:
A former Carroll County [Maryland] woman who collected her deceased husband's benefits after she remarried received a federal prison sentence of almost two years yesterday for lying to the Social Security Administration and pocketing $70,000 in benefits to which she was not entitled.

Jennifer Jones Peach Gimbel, 39, of Arizona pleaded guilty in April to making false statements to a government agency. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced her to to 21 months in prison, followed by three years' supervised release.

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