KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – An FAA employee from Kansas City has admitted in a court of law that he illegally used his dead mother’s disability benefits for years.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri announced on Wednesday, July 23, that Afshin Setoodeh, 62, of Blue Springs, pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud. He admitted that he had been stealing his deceased mother’s Social Security Disability benefits since 2019.
Investigators noted that Setoodah had been responsible for appropriate use of the benefits for the care of his mother since 2018. However, after she returned to her home country of Iran in 2019, he did not notify the Social Security Administration she had left…