CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A Florida woman who admitted to receiving fraudulent West Virginia public employee pension benefits has been sentenced, prosecutors said.
Semiha Nilgun Gencsoy, 71, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced to five years of federal probation and ordered to pay nearly $330,000 in restitution for possession of stolen money, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Gencsoy pleaded guilty in May, admitting she fraudulently received $328,478.38 in West Virginia public employee pension benefits over a 15-year period…