Woman pretended to be dead mom to get benefits
A D.C. woman admitted that she pretended to be her dead mother to collect more than $35,000 in federal retirement benefits.
Yolanda Powers, 31, will likely receive a sentence of six to 12 months of home detention under federal guidelines, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Carol Powers died on April 1, 2008, shortly after retiring, and retirement payments were deposited into her account. Yolanda Powers continued to draw from the account and use the money for herself. Prosecutors said they have tape recordings of five calls to the credit union in which Powers represented herself to her mother.
‘Teflon defendant’ arraigned
Corey A. Moore, known as the “Teflon defendant,” entered a not guilty plea at an arraignment hearing in federal court in Greenbelt.
Moore was indicted last month on drugs and weapons charges stemming from a cocaine and PCP bust in Takoma Park.
He was dubbed the “Teflon defendant” after prosecutors dropped a murder charge in a 1994 D.C. slaying after four mistrials.
Moore was indicted on charges of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession of firearms in a drug-trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of guns and ammunition.
Va. man gets prison for failing to pay taxes
A Northern Virginia businessman was sentenced to one year and seven months in prison for failing to pay employment taxes.
Prosecutors said Eric J. Eisenhower, of Fairfax Station, failed to account and pay for more than $200,000 in withholdings from employees’ paychecks while he was the president of CoManage Inc., a computer software development company.
He was also ordered to pay $88,826 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
– Compiled by Scott McCabe and Emily Babay
