From a Social Security press release:
Sophia Dix, 35, of Newport News, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for wire fraud. Dix was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $97,584.94.
Dix pleaded guilty on April 25, 2016. According to court documents, from in or about April 2014, through in or about August 2015, Dix devised a scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration (SSA), where she was employed as a service representative at a district office in Norfolk. She had computer access to Social Security Administration beneficiary information, including bank account data for the direct deposit of benefit payments into the bank accounts of beneficiaries. Dix obtained monies for herself by fraudulently processing computer changes to beneficiary account information so that benefit payments would be deposited directly into prepaid reloadable debit card accounts that she opened at a financial institution in the name of a deceased beneficiary. As a result, Dix fraudulently diverted over $97,000 into the prepaid reloadable debit card accounts, which she used for her personal benefit.
4 comments:
See, told ya all claimants' representatives were corrupt and destroying the system!!!!
A1:16am You need to re-read SSA's press release. This was an SSA employee, a service representative in a local SSA office, who ripped off current beneficiaries. Wonder why it took SSA so long to catch her?
and she only got 15 months?....
@ 11:03 AM I do believe 1:16 AM was using a language technique we refer to as sarcasm.
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