Jamaican-American imprisoned for lying about husband to gain benefits
Loop News Created : 23 July 2019
Jamaica News
A Jamaican-American former sailor has been sentenced to five months in a United States prison for stealing nearly US$140,000 from the federal government by falsely claiming her husband lived in New York.
Camesha Walters was a petty officer third class living in Norfolk. Her husband was a foreign national living in Bangladesh.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that to increase her take-home pay, Walters told the Navy her husband was a US citizen living in Brooklyn, so she needed larger housing and cost-of-living allowances to support him.
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