The mask will have lasted a quarter of a century. A Minnesota resident in the United States was sentenced to one year and a day in prison on Thursday, August 21, after the discovery of an old scam on his part. Then he will remain one more supervised year.
At 54, Mavious Redmond has pretended to be his mother since his death, to receive social security retirement insurance.
According to a press release from the federal prosecutor of the Minnesota district, he would have received exactly 360,627 dollars (around 307,000 euros) between 1999 and 2024. She, for example, took advantage of the $ 3,200 linked to the economic impact of the COVVI-19 distributed in her mother’s account.
“Mavious Redmond’s ploy was shameless, writes interim federal prosecutor Joseph H. Thompson. It was not free money. It was money from the taxpayers, stolen from a program based on the hard work of Minnesota residents who contributed to each salary.”
“We will not let this do this. We will continue to initiate the prosecution until each Minnesota scammer entails that there is a price to pay to steal taxpayers,” he continues.
Mavious Redmond has usurped the identity of his mother, including his date of birth and social security number in official forms. He also falsified his signature, even calling herself pretending to be her generator by telephone and during her visits to the person in the Social Security Office (SSA).
“She changed her mother’s direction to reflect her own ability changes,” said the press release. So many factors that aggravate their case, according to the judge.
“A crime of opportunity born of despair”
In 1999, the fraudose person had also contacted the SSA to ask him to help, so hypothetically, his mother came to die. It was answered that it was necessary to contact them to finish them, what she never did, knowingly.
“He is not a hardened criminal, he wanted to remember Robert Meyers, his lawyer in judicial documents consulted by USA Today. The crime of Mavious Redmond was a crime of opportunity born of despair. This fraud did not intend to allow him to live with luxury.”
The young woman found himself without support after the death of which she took identity. Then he worked in a meter for eight dollars per hour and depended on food banks, the media said. “Desperate circumstances” according to Robert Meyers, who explains the fraud without trying to legitimize him.
Since the discovery of its fraud, Mavious Redmond has found for the first time a job in an McDonald’s, working 25 hours per week. A job that maintained eight months before your employer discovers the crime and fired it. Now he lives in a shelter for homeless people and benefits from housing stabilization assistance.
Source: BFM TV
