05-11-2009, 08:17
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Woman who kept mom's body and benefits charged
Guess it takes all kinds. 
And so it goes...
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Woman who kept mom's body and benefits charged
Reuters, 9 May 2009
A Florida woman has been indicted for keeping her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
Penelope Sharon Jordan of Sebastian, Florida, was charged by a federal grand jury last week with Social Security fraud and theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami said.
Police found the decaying body of her mother, Timmie Jordan, on a bed in a spare bedroom at the mother's home in late March, when they were called to investigate a report of nuisance cats.
Penelope Jordan told police her mother had died in 2003.
The indictment alleged Jordan concealed her mother's death in order to receive both her U.S. Social Security benefits and her military survivor's benefit.
Jordan collected $61,415 from Social Security and $176,461 from the military pension during the six years, prosecutors said.
She could face up to 15 years in prison.
Local media reported that the 61-year-old woman told police her mother died of old age and she kept the remains because she couldn't afford burial expenses. An autopsy found no signs of foul play.
According to a local paper, police found many cats on Jordan's property but she denied they were hers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_co...DEl1blvJLtiBIF
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05-11-2009, 08:25
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WHOA !!!!
Wonder how much she spent on those "Pine Tree" air fresheners?
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05-11-2009, 08:54
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It's really incredible what people put up with(dead mother in house for 6 years)  Just to be able to collect money.............  Now she'll go to jail.......
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05-11-2009, 09:14
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Here in Md lady killed one of her dtrs.. stuck her in the freezer for two yrs. Moved so no school district could turn her in for the kid not being at school. Kept the other dtr imprisoned in the house. Dtr finally escaped and told the police.. might have been two dtrs in the freezer, I forget the whole story now, was last yr though. . It was gruesome anyway like you guys said. It talks all kinds..
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Wonder how much she spent on those "Pine Tree" air fresheners?
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Pine Sol rules for those kinds of 'odors'..
Last edited by armymom1228; 05-11-2009 at 09:15.
Reason: forgot to spell chk
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05-11-2009, 11:06
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[QUOTE=Richard] Guess it takes all kinds. :ee
A man in the U.S. was arrested a few years ago after he faked mental retardation for a number of years so that he could draw Social Security. A judge ordered him to pay it all back.
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05-11-2009, 11:30
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Pine Sol rules for those kinds of 'odors'..
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Should I ask???
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05-11-2009, 12:59
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It's really incredible what people put up with(dead mother in house for 6 years)
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I put up with a live mother in law. That's got to be worse than a dead mother.
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