A retired IRS agent from Southern California has been sentenced to state prison after she was convicted of defrauding an elderly San Francisco Bay Area woman out of $1 million in life savings.
According to the Sonoma County District Attorney Carla Rodriguez’s office, 81-year-old Elana Cohen-Roth of Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles County was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday. Last month, a jury convicted Cohen-Roth of 23 felony counts of financial fraud in relation to the scheme, which victimized a Sonoma County woman.
“The victim’s years of hard work and lifetime savings are gone due to Ms. Cohen-Roth’s greed. Unfortunately, the victim will never be made whole financially and her life is forever impacted,” Rodriguez said in a statement …