BOSTON — U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel on Wednesday ordered a Revere woman to pay back the federal agencies she defrauded of more than $88,000.
That's the total amount of disability payments and rental assistance that 64-year-old Emily Lardiero received for more than a decade from the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to federal prosecutors assigned to the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz.
Lardiero was a recipient of HUD assistance since 2001 and disability benefits since 2003, prosecutors said.
Zobel sentenced Lardiero to three years of probation – including six months of home confinement – and ordered her to pay $47,671 in Social Security restitution and $40,391 in HUD restitution. Lardiero, who had been facing possible prison time for her crimes, pleaded guilty in December to two counts of stealing public money...