Ex-county official guilty of stealing over $168k in benefits from dead mother

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — A former South Carolina county elections director was convicted this week in federal court of fraudulently obtaining more than $168,000 in Social Security benefits intended for her dead mother, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.

Cynthia Delores Holland, 61, of Aiken was found guilty by a federal jury after a day and a half of trial.

Prosecutors said Holland illegally received retirement payments from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for nearly a decade after her mother died in 2013…

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