A Florida woman was sentenced to prison after spending nearly $50,000 on concerts, basketball games and clubs. striptease with the money that Social Security sent to her dead father for years, since she did not inform them of the death.
Terri Lynn Hankerson, 59, of the city of Lauderdale Lakes, was sentenced to five months in jail and five months under house arrest for stealing benefits from her father, Tommie Lee Hankerson, who died at the age of 90 on June 5. of 2016, The Attorney General’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said this Wednesday.
“After his father’s death, Hankerson spent nearly $50,000 in Social Security benefits on concerts, a striptease local, Miami Heat games, Costco, hotels, bars and other places, “explained the Prosecutor’s Office.
The money in question was deposited by the Social Security Administration in a bank account of the deceased between 2016 and 2020. During all this time, the woman did not notify her that her father had died, the authorities reported.
Hankerson took advantage of the fact that the money was deposited directly into an account that she became co-owner of shortly before her father died, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
“The Social Security Administration continued to make monthly deposits, including payments adjusted for the increase in the cost of living, from July 2016 until it suspended benefits in February 2020,” the authorities detailed.
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The woman, who will also have to pay compensation, spent a total of $48,328, according to The Miami Herald. Hankerson was convicted by a federal jury after four days of trial, the Prosecutor’s Office reported.
