Marietta woman steals $200,000 in federal funds

A Marietta woman Jennifer Wynn pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $200,000 of government funds.

Wynn, 50, had been illegally receiving and cashing the Social Security checks of her deceased mother-in-law since her death in 1994, the United States Attorney’s office in Atlanta reported.

Through concealing her mother-in-law’s death, keeping her bank accounts open and forging her signature, Wynn illegally obtained a total of $195,304.

U.S. Attorney Sally Yates said in a press release Wynn will be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” for stealing from a federal entitlement program.

Wynn’s sentencing before U.S. District Judge Orinda D. Evans is scheduled for August.

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