A 54-year-old Austin woman has been sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $360,000 in Social Security benefits over a 25-year period by posing as her dead mother.
Mavious Redmond was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and one year of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced Thursday.
“Redmond’s scheme was brazen and shameless,” Thompson said in a press release. “For 25 years, she posed as her dead mother to steal more than $360,000 in Social Security benefits. This wasn’t free money. It was taxpayer money, stolen from a program built on the hard work of Minnesotans who paid in every paycheck. Cases like this are part of the broader fraud crisis gripping our state, where too many see taxpayer programs as their own personal piggy banks. We will not let it stand.”
As Alpha News previously reported, Redmond began the scheme in 1999 after her mother’s death. Instead of notifying the Social Security Administration (SSA) that benefits should be terminated, she used her mother’s identity to keep the payments flowing.
Redmond impersonated her mother repeatedly, forging her signature, using her personal information on official forms, and even appearing in person at SSA offices while claiming to be her. She altered addresses to match her own moves and maintained the deception for more than two decades.
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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