An Iowa woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally cashing more than $300,000 in Social Security checks intended for her mother, a Brattleboro resident who died in 1994.
Ella Mae Woods, 76, had pleaded guilty in May to a single wire fraud charge in connection with the scheme that spanned nearly three decades, according to court filings.
Woods was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Rutland by Judge Mae A. D’Agostino to serve a year and a day in prison and pay restitution of $328,000, according to federal prosecutors…