MINNEAPOLIS — An Austin woman wqs sentenced to prison for one year for swindling $360,000 in Social Security funds. Mavious Redmond, age 54, earlier pleaded guilty to collecting benefits under her mother’s name for 25 years. Her mother died in 1999. Federal Judge Nancy Ellen Brasel imposed the sentence.

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Joseph Thompson, acting U.S. attorney: “This was taxpayer money, stolen from a program built on the hard work of Minnesotans who paid in every paycheck.”