Former Social Security Employee Sentenced To 12 Months Behind Bars

     From WSOC-TV in Charlotte:

Oliver Montgomery has already served more than four months behind bars, but on Tuesday a federal judge ruled that he’ll spend eight more months in prison.

Montgomery is a former Social Security representative in Charlotte who abused his power. He was sentenced Tuesday for a crime that victimized at least two people, including an inmate.

From January 2017 to July 2017, Montgomery meddled with their accounts.

Last year, Channel 9 reported that Montgomery changed information on an inmate's paperwork in order to divert $27,000 to himself instead of to a beneficiary.

In another case, Montgomery used a beneficiary's personal identity information. That time he took more than $12,000, officials said. ...