Upstate N.Y. Woman Imprisoned for One Fund Boston Theft
May 21, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
A Troy, N.Y., woman who was awarded $480,000 through a false claim to the charity set up to compensate victims of the Boston Marathon bombings was sentenced Tuesday to two and a half to three years in prison, The Boston Globe reports.
The sentencing followed Audrea Gause’s guilty plea to a charge of larceny. The 27-year-old mother of two was indicted in July on allegations that she secured falsified hospital records to buttress a phony claim to the One Fund Boston that she suffered injuries at the April 15, 2013, race. Massachusetts authorities later received a tip that Ms. Gause was not at the marathon and had a history of arrests on fraud charges.
Officials said all the stolen money will be returned to the One Fund, including $377,000 Ms. Gause paid to an Albany builder for a four-bedroom house two weeks after she received the charity payment.
