Legal Opinion
United States v. Bowles
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 7, 2014No. 13-1575PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
Sharon Bowles appeals her conviction after jury trial on five counts of theft of government funds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641. We affirm.
I
Bowles was found guilty of fraudulently collecting a total of $77,379 in federal civil service retirement survivor annuity payments made in 2005 through 2009 and intended for her mother, Ann Bowles. As the surviving spouse of a civil service employee, Ann Bowles had been entitled to a monthly annuity that should have stopped after she died in 2004. After getting notice of her death from the Social Security Administration in…
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