Lewiston’s wife sentenced by Social Security fraud

Portland – a Lewiston woman was ordered to pay more than $ 90,000 on Wednesday after admitting that Social Security fraud dates from 2011.

Donna Desroisiers, 62, was also sentenced to a year of federal probation during the sentence hearing in the United States District Court in Portland. She admitted the position of social security fraud in October 2024.

Before a guilt declaration agreement was made, DESOSIERS had faced up to five years in prison and a fine of $ 250,000.

Prosecutors said that between November 1, 2011 and November 1, 2022, DESrosiers raised around $ 90,674.00 in SSI benefits to which he had no right.

United States Assistant Jeanne D. Semivan described the evidence against disrosiers in a judicial documentThat DESOSIERS and his lawyer agreed was precisely.

In him, Semivan wrote that DESrosiers married in 1981 and began receiving SSI benefits in 2003.

When he requested benefits, he was informed about the requirements of reports on changes in household members and income, Semivan wrote.

Since 2009, Drosiers husband received benefits from Social Security disability insurance, Semivan wrote.

In 2012, during a review of its benefits, DESrosiers acknowledged that she was married but did not indicate that her husband was a member of her home, “according to the document.

“She denied having had resources beyond $ 25 in a savings account and did not include any income attributable to her husband,” they semivan.

Again, in 2022, DESOSIERS recalled his report responsibilities.

“She acknowledged being married to her husband, but said they had not lived together since 2003,” Semivan wrote.

DESOSIERS and her husband had deposited their benefits in a joint current account from 2011 to 2022, Semivan wrote.

The street addresses of their houses were separated by two digits and the two directions were located in the same apartment building, according to Semivan.

When the federal agents called the telephone number that Desrosiers had provided to the Social Security Administration, a man replied, identifying with a name that coincided with the defendant’s husband.

DESOSIERS finally told the agents that she and her husband lived together.

“Although the defendant said that her husband then spent time out of the house, she indicated that he lived with her and stayed in her department for at least 12 days of each month during the previous 11 years,” Semivan wrote.

When DESOSIERS was asked what she thought it would have happened if she had informed her husband’s presence in her home most of the time, she said: “They would probably take my check,” Semivan wrote.

DESOSIERS confirmed, after admitting the position, that this was the reason why it had been reluctant to inform the Social Security Administration.