A.V. WOMAN GETS 16 MONTHS FOR DEFRAUDING U.S.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer A Lancaster lab technician described as a ``poster child for Social Security fraud'' has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for unlawfully obtaining more than $112,000 in benefits. From 1989-97, Patricia Mercedes Carrasco, 33, obtained benefits by using the name Patty Burgos and by claiming that she was disabled by chronic depression and an ulcer. While receiving the disability payments, Carrasco was working and using her true name. ``She indicated she initially was entitled to disability benefits and then at a certain point she obtained employment,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Arian said. ``Because she needed the money she continued to receive the benefits when she shouldn't have.'' Carrasco was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge James Ideman in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . She had pleaded guilty Nov. 17 to making false statements to obtain Social Security benefits, and to concealing and failing to disclose her ineligibility for benefits. Ideman also ordered Carrasco to pay $112,607 in restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the to the Social Security Administration. Carrasco has worked as a lab technician at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital, the Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. facility in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and Glendale Memorial Hospital, Arian said. At the sentencing Monday, Carrasco told the court she was sorry for what she had done. |
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