CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A 55-year-old Maine woman has been sentenced in federal court in New Hampshire two years of probation and six months of home confinement for transferring funds stolen from the Social Security Administration.
Authorities say Irene Howard of Waterville fraudulently obtained about $100,000 in disability payments from the Social Security administration from 2000 to 2006.
Authorities say although she had claimed she was disabled and unable to work, Howard was employed and consequently ineligible to collect disability benefits when she received these payments.
They also say Howard caused the wire transfer of about $20,000 of the funds from her bank accounts in Maine to her bank account in New Hampshire. Under federal law, it is illegal to cause the interstate transfer of more than $5,000 that was knowingly obtained by fraud.
Howard was indicted on one count of interstate transfer of stolen funds by a federal last year, and pleaded guilty in February.
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