A woman who ran a bakery out of her home has received a two-year prison term for making a false statement to the Social Security Administration, authorities said.
Julie Anna DeLarm, 51, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson, according to a news release from the office of Patrick Harris, the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
DeLarm, formerly known as Julianna England, was approved for Social Security disability benefits in March 2009 but started assisting in the bakery operations from her Searcy home in 2011, the release stated. The bakery, called Tookies, reportedly moved to a separate space in January 2014.
Harris said a Social Security Administration employee who knew DeLarm saw her working in the bakery in March 2014. In May of that year, she submitted a report to the agency falsely stating she had not worked since she her last medical decision from the administration.
Her two-year term will run consecutively with a sentence she is serving for a federal wire-fraud conviction from California for embezzling $360,000 from her employer between 2000 and 2007, according to the news release.
NW News on 08/14/2017