A woman and her ex-boyfriend convicted of defrauding the state of unemployment benefits have been sentenced, federal officials said.

Timeka Johnson, 44, and Ray Anthony Eddington, 45, were sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Jerome Gorgon, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a statement.

Johnson, a former Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency employee, was given 3.5 years in prison by a judge for aggravated identity theft and conspiring to engage in wire fraud, according to Gorgon.

Eddington was sentenced to three years for conspiring to engage in wire fraud, he said.

They were also ordered to pay $250,001 in restitution as part of their sentence, the U.S. Attorney General said.

"It is one thing to steal if you are hungry and can’t find a job

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