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'A man who cashed his dead father's retirement checks for nearly 30 years and pocketed roughly half a million dollars has been sentenced to a year of home confinement, followed by two years probation.'
He 'never told the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board to stop sending retirement payments to his father, who died in 1983, according to federal court records.'
Peter Spino, 78, has also had to pay full restitution and a $45,000 fine on top now. Feds caught up with him in 2012 when, after using up various excuses about where his father was, Spino eventually admitted he'd died. Defence asked for mitigation because Spino had lost three fingers in a work accident and also been badly burnt in a home fire.
However: 'Spino has a prior state conviction in 1984 for second-degree insurance fraud and was sentenced to five years probation in that case.'
http://www.wwltv.com/home/Man-cashed-272402771.html
He 'never told the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board to stop sending retirement payments to his father, who died in 1983, according to federal court records.'
Peter Spino, 78, has also had to pay full restitution and a $45,000 fine on top now. Feds caught up with him in 2012 when, after using up various excuses about where his father was, Spino eventually admitted he'd died. Defence asked for mitigation because Spino had lost three fingers in a work accident and also been badly burnt in a home fire.
However: 'Spino has a prior state conviction in 1984 for second-degree insurance fraud and was sentenced to five years probation in that case.'
http://www.wwltv.com/home/Man-cashed-272402771.html