Austin woman pleads guilty in Federal court to fraud that netted her $320K

Apr. 14—Woman schemed payments intended for deceased parent for 25 years

An Austin pistillate has entered a plea of blameworthy to theft of authorities funds aft implicit 2 decades of Social Security fraud.

According to a merchandise from the U.S. Attorney's Office successful Minnesota, acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick announced that Mavious Redmond had conducted the fraud for 25 years resulting successful $360,000 successful payments that were intended for her mother.

The fraud lasted from January 1999 to June of 2024.

Redmond pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of theft of authorities funds successful U.S. District Court earlier Judge Nancy E. Brasel connected April 9. A sentencing proceeding volition instrumentality spot astatine a aboriginal date.

In the merchandise it was related that according to tribunal documents, Redmond, 54, carried retired a strategy to cod her deceased mother's societal information status benefits pursuing her mother's decease successful January 1999.

On aggregate occasions, Redmond impersonated her deceased parent to support her fraud strategy going with 1 illustration taking spot connected June 4, 2024, erstwhile Redmond personally visited the SSA office, posing arsenic her mother, and submitted a fraudulent SS-5 Application for Social Security Form utilizing her mother's name, day of birth, societal information number, and forging her deceased mother's signature. Redmond visited the SSA bureau again connected June 20, 2024, resubmitted her deceased mother's documentation and the signifier with the forged signature.

This lawsuit is the effect of an probe by the Social Security Administration — Office of Inspector General.