Former Social Security employee headed to prison in KC fraud case

A Kansas City woman has been ordered to serve a year and one day in federal prison for stealing nearly $10,000 from the government through identify fraud while she worked for the Social Security Administration.

Mary Francis Taylor, 54, also must pay $9,853 in restitution, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Taylor had access to Social Security numbers while working as a teleservice technician in Kansas City.

According to prosecutors, she found a NetSpend debit card on a public bus in August 2013. She used it and other documents to add another beneficiary to the debit card then used a work computer to falsify information and deposit government funds into a bank account linked to the debit card.

She used the money to pay various debts, including delinquent mortgage payments, prosecutors said.

The Star

This story was originally published April 28, 2015 at 2:34 PM with the headline "Former Social Security employee headed to prison in KC fraud case."