MINNEAPOLIS — An Austin woman who admitted to a 25-year-long Social Security scheme in which she posed as her dead mother to federal officials has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison.

Mavious Redmond, 54, pleaded guilty in April. Prosecutors say the scheme began when her mother passed away in 1999. Redmond used her mother's identity as her own, forged her signature, used her name and date of birth on documents, and impersonated her deceased mother in person and over the phone.

Prosecutors say Redmond fraudulently collected $360,627 in Social Security funds over the 25 years.

“Redmond’s scheme was brazen and shameless,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson in a press release. “For 25 years, she posed as her dead mother to steal more than $360,000 in Social Security ben

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