A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to prison for a 25-year-old Social Security scam, during which she posed as her dead mother, federal prosecutors said.

On Thursday, Aug. 21, Mavious Redmond, 54, of Austin, Minnesota, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for pretending to be her deceased mother to claim Social Security Retirement Insurance Benefits, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota. Over the course of 25 years, officials believe Redmond fraudulently collected $360,627.

"Redmond’s scheme was brazen and shameless," U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson said in the news release. "This wasn’t free money. It was taxpayer money, stolen from a program built on the hard work of Minnesotans who paid in every paycheck."

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