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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Chief U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn sentenced Libra Nikosha Green, 32, Birmingham, to two years in prison for a false statement she made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency on May 2 in an attempt to gain disaster benefits after the April 27 tornadoes, telling a FEMA representative that she had lost her home, her father and her infant daughter in the tornadoes. Green pleaded guilty in October to one count of making a false statement to the government. Green acknowledged that she attempted to get disaster benefits by telephoning FEMA and claiming that she lived in a house on Cherry Avenue in Birmingham that was destroyed by a tornado and that the tornado killed her father and daughter. Green did not live in the Cherry Avenue house, her father had died about two months before the storm, and the tornado did not kill her daughter, according to the plea agreement. "This defendant made false and outrageous claims in an attempt to parlay the community's devastation and distress into a financial windfall for herself," said U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance. "My office will continue to prosecute cases of fraud related to disaster benefits. We want to deter fraud and punish the people willing to commit crimes in order to take money intended to help tornado survivors," she said.
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