A daughter impersonated her dead mom’s voice and pretended to be her for 19 years in Florida to obtain nearly $340,000 in Veterans Affairs benefits, federal prosecutors said.
A judge has now sentenced the 65-year-old Fort Myers woman to one year in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida said Feb. 19. McClatchy News reached out to her attorney for comment Feb. 19 but did not immediately receive a response.
The woman’s father was a veteran, and therefore the mom began receiving surviving spouse benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs after he died, prosecutors said in an indictment…