A Stoneham woman was sentenced Thursday in federal court to two years in prison for using stolen identities to submit false Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims, officials said in a statement Thursday.
Lilly Nguyen, 25, was sentenced to two years in prison and 18 months of supervised release by US District Court Judge Denise J. Casper, according to a statement from US Attorney Rachael S. Rollins, Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in charge of the US Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations, Labor Racketeering, and Fraud Jonathan Mellone.
Nguyen also must pay a $526,423 restitution, according to the statement.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Christopher J. Markham of Rollins’s Securities, Financial, and Cyber Fraud Unit, officials said. The state’s Department of Unemployment Assistance also provided special assistance, according to the statement.
Nguyen pleaded guilty on Aug. 3, 2021, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, officials said.
Nguyen and her co-conspirator Daniel Maleus used “stolen personally identifiable information of others” to submit fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims, according to the statement.
“The claims submitted by Nguyen and Maleus resulted in $526,423 in payments between April 2020 and April 2021,” federal law enforcement officials said.
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