Las Vegas couple sent to prison for stealing dead worker’s benefits

A Las Vegas mates who prosecutors said collected much than $300,000 successful national status benefits for a twelve years were sentenced Wednesday to 21 months successful prison.

From 2005 to 2017, Rodolfo Segovia, 53, and Jennifer Segovia, 48, some of Las Vegas, assumed the erstwhile national worker’s identity, according to the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s office. The mates stole “at slightest $308,391.72 by redirecting annuity payments” made by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management into their ain slope accounts, authorities said.

The hubby and woman each pleaded blameworthy successful August to theft of authorities wealth oregon property. They were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Mahan. A defence lawyer for the brace could not instantly beryllium reached for remark Wednesday afternoon.

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