Woman gets 8 months home confinement for $98K VA theft
A north Georgia woman has been sentenced to eight months of home confinement for illegally receiving $98,000 in government money, according to a media report.
Leigh E. Hall of Rome received her late father’s Department of Veterans Affairs checks from 2012 to 2014, according to the Rome News-Tribune.
She also is required to pay back $98,510.72 to the VA, the paper reported. The home confinement is part of a five-year probation.
Hall could have received up to 10 years in prison, but federal prosecutor Alana Black asked the judge for leniency, the paper reported. Hall has to provide for a child.
Hall’s public defender told the judge that Hall cared for her father for eight years, according to the report.
“This is a sad case,” Black told the courtroom.
