MISSOULA — A Philipsburg woman accused of lying about her living arrangements and assets in order to receive more Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits and other federal aid than she was entitled to receive admitted to charges today, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.

Virginia Kathleen Pearson, 56, pleaded guilty to false statements to a government agency as charged in an indictment. Pearson faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.

BOISE – A Star woman pleaded guilty to making a false statement in connection with government contracts.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Logan County woman pleaded guilty today to misappropriation of postal funds.

BROOKLYN, NY – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Aleah Mohammed was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for carrying out multiple schemes to defraud health care programs, including obtaining more than $6.5 million from Medicare Part D plans and Medicaid drug plans. Mohammed pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, one count of health care fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in April 2021.

ABINGDON, Va.  – A Southwest Virginia woman, who collaborated with more than 30 others in a scheme to cheat the government out of more than $499,000 in unemployment benefits, pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government, one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.