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